Model and actress Hunter Schafer is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a lengthy video posted to her TikTok stories, Schafer, who is transgender, shared that her sex had been reverted to male on the newly issued passport she received.

“My initial reaction to this, because our president is a lot of talk, was like ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ … and today I saw it on my new passport,” she said, holding up the identification booklet to show the sex line with an “M” for male, her sex assigned at birth.

Schafer said the gender markers on her driver’s license and passport were first changed when she was a teen. All other official documents since then have had the female markers she currently identifies with, but after having her passport stolen while filming in Spain last year, she filed for a replacement.

Later in the video, she hypothesized that because her birth certificate had never been changed, the government might have used that to identify her as trans and make the shift.

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Reading from notes she wrote, Schafer told followers that the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which operates under the U.S. State Department, had frozen passport applications requesting gender marker changes as well as new applications that requested a gender marker deviating from an applicant’s sex assigned at birth.

Among Trump’s wave of executive orders when he assumed office was for the federal government to “recognize only two sexes, male and female,” and that “these sexes are not changeable.” Government agencies, including the U.S. Department of State, are enforcing the policy for all government-issued identification documents like visas, passports and Global Entry cards.

USA TODAY has reached out to both Schafer and the governmental organizations responsible for comment.

“I’m not making this post to fearmonger, or to create drama or receive consolation, I don’t need it. But I do think it’s worth posting to sort of note the reality of the situation,” Schafer said. “I was shocked.

“I guess I’m just sort of scared of the way this stuff gets slowly implemented because things just sort of start happening as we’ve seen in historical rises in fascism,” she continued. “I just feel like it’s important to share that it’s not just talk.”

Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump frequently attacked transgender Americans, claiming there should only be two genders and arguing trans women in particular are a threat to cisgender women in sports. His rhetoric fits firmly in a growing pattern among members of the Republican party who have ramped up attacks on gender-affirming care and transgender people in the past few years.

With a flurry of executive orders, Trump took aim at trans people in his first 100 days, barring student-athletes from competing alongside their gender if it differs from their sex at birth and directing federal agencies to take a closer look at hospitals providing gender-affirming care to patients under 19.

Schafer, who has broken barriers in the entertainment sphere as a pioneering trans actress and model, starred on HBO’s “Euphoria” as Jules Vaughn, a role that was praised in part for not veering into violent tropes sometimes associated with trans characters.

She was also among the youngest plaintiffs named in the 2016 American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal suit against the state of North Carolina which challenged House Bill 2 − a state legal measure meant to prevent transgender people from using the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity.

The bill contributed to a nationwide surge of “bathroom bills,” that made it all the way to the Capitol late last year when Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., proposed a similar law that would apply to bathrooms in the Capitol.

“No one – no matter their circumstance, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever – is excluded,” Schafer said in her TikTok of the administration’s recent campaign.

She said she doesn’t care “that they put an M on my passport, it doesn’t change anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder.”

The scope of that difficulty is not yet clear, she told followers, revealing that she will be traveling internationally next week and will find out what the change means, speculating that she might have to out herself to border patrol agents.

“Trans people are beautiful we are never going to stop existing I am never going to stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that,” she said.

Contributing: Kathleen Wong