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  1. #HunterSchafer speaks out about being issued a male passport

    By Krysta Fauria, February 23, 2025

    SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — "Hunter Schafer says 'it’s important to just keep track of where things are in our country,' a day after the 'Euphoria' star posted a video in which she revealed her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker.

    "Speaking to The Associated Press on the red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, the 26-year-old actor, who is trans, said she felt 'it was a good, necessary point' to share. Schafer, also a presenter at the award show, was nominated for best lead performance for 'Cuckoo.'

    "President Donald #Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office instituting a new and narrow federal government definition of the sexes. As part of the order, the federal government defines sex as only male or female and says that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the
    'X' marker that’s been available since 2021 and is not honoring requests to change gender markers between 'M' and
    'F.'

    "In an 8 ½-minute video posted to TikTok on Friday, Schafer, who transitioned as a young teen, said the passport that was meant to carry her well into her 30s was stolen while she was filming in Spain. After receiving an emergency passport, she later had to apply for a new, permanent one in Los Angeles. Having had female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager, Schafer marked 'female' on her application — but received a passport that identified her as male, she said. In the video, she said she had not had her birth certificate amended.

    "Schafer acknowledged the executive order in her TikTok video: 'Because our president, you know, is a lot of talk, I was like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ And, today, I saw it,' Schafer said, holding up her new passport page with the 'M' marker. She said she was making the video not to 'fearmonger or like create drama or receive consolation,' but to note the reality of the situation.

    "'I wasn’t even really looking for support, but I have an amazing community around me and it’s one of the greatest blessings of my life and so I felt very supported throughout, before and then now,' she told the AP on Saturday.

    "The State Department said in response to a request for comment that it was implementing Trump’s executive order but declined to comment on specific cases, citing privacy laws and restrictions.

    "'It doesn’t really change anything about me or my #transness. However, it does make my life a little harder,' Schafer said in the video, saying she has to travel for the first time with the new passport next week.

    "'#TransPeople are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter and a passport can’t change that,' she concluded."

    apnews.com/article/hunter-scha
    #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransPeople #GenderFascists #ResistFascism

  2. Béla Belissima from the podcast "Queering the perspective" has three new episodes about Sri Lanka. I knew almost nothing about Sri Lanka and listened very interested to the episodes.

    queeringperspectives.wixsite.c

    *Call for System Change in Sri Lanka*
    "In our first Sri Lanka episode, we talk about the “Aragalaya” (the Sri Lankan national uprising at the face of the economic collapse in 2022)..."

    *Transitioning and Expectation of Transness*
    "In this conversation, we address the complicated process of transitioning in Sri Lanka which quickly also turns into a discussion about the economic crisis and the lack of access to hormones..."

    *Gender Non-Conformity in the Fashion World*
    "What was it like being the first gender non-conforming model walking Colombo Fashion Week?
    Our guest for this last Sri Lanka episode was that person and gives insights into the fashion world and queer community in its beauty, power and challenges...."

    There is also a translated version available (Tamil and Sinhala) queeringperspectives.wixsite.c

    #Podcast #Podcasts #Queer #Queerness #Queering #SriLanka #Aragalaya #QueeringPerspectives #Transness #Transition

  3. CW: TW Transphobia, Russian politics

    Russian parliament approved in first reading an awful law which effectively bans legal gender recognition and trans health care in the country:

    "On May 30, a bill was introduced to the parliament. If it is adopted, changing gender markers in documents and gender-affirmative surgeries will become impossible in Russia. It can be adopted in a month and transgender people in Russia are in panic. Those who have not changed their documents yet are trying to do it ASAP and trans organizations are doing all they can to help them. Still many trans people won't be able to change the docs in time - we are particularly talking about trans teens. We can't even imagine how many of them will commit suicide instead of living in a wrong gender without any hope. Please, share this information with your friends, make a post about it, and contact your local LGBTQ+ organization. Show your solidarity with trans people of Russia in this Pride Month!" (centre-t.com/english)

    Here are a few trans and/or queer local organizations you might consider to donate to:

    centre-t.com/help_eng
    queersvit.taplink.ws/
    transcoalition.net/
    comingoutspb.com/eng/

    #trans #transrights #transinrussia #transidentity #translives #transpride #transness #transorganizations #selfhelp #supporttranspeople #international #solidarity #transwithoutborders

    @lgbtqia

  4. One thing I wish people understood about transphobia is that it's not just that it was *imported* around the world during European colonialism -- #WhiteSupremacy itself *depends* on transphobia as a prop for both cultural and economic domination and #Imperialism.

    Not only does white supremacy rely on binary #gender roles to support its ideas of eugenics & encouraging the "right" kind of population growth (this has always been a big part of different iterations of white supremacist ideologies including #Nazism and Italian #Fascism etc) but it relies on the destruction of individual cultures' norms around communality & spirituality, communal bonds, knowledge keeping & transfer, relationships to the ideas of borders & permeable boundaries & cultural flow & other kinds of "soft" political concepts.

    All of these have frequently been part of pre-colonial concepts of what we might think of transness & other-genderedness around the world, in assorted ways; #transness hasn't always been this very set and singly defined biomedical concept that gets distributed by international institutions.

    White supremacist #colonialism also relies on being able to assert specific forms of economic reliance & productivity including what we think of as capitalist mechanisms, as a way of creating dominance hierarchies & destroying existing forms of work & doing & community. Which often involved different delineations of gendered work than the one being superimposed.

    #queer #trans #Indigenous

  5. CW: Family estrangement, slur, religious trauma

    🧵 I can't do their healing for them, and the emotional pain and religious trauma they have put me through is the most painful thing I have had happen to me in my entire life.

    I spent my entire childhood (after I buried my #transness deep at 4 years old) trying to figure out why I was so broken and different than them. When I was 7 or 8, I found out what being adopted was, and I was so happy, because I finally had an answer.

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