Hunter Schafer

After applying to replace a lost passport, Schafer revealed that the new document carried a male sex marker despite her request for a female marker and having held female identification documents for almost a decade. She linked the change to the Trump administration's new federal guidelines.

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Schafer was among more than a hundred Jewish Voice for Peace protesters who occupied the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza during Joe Biden's appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. She was arrested alongside several dozen participants.

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Schafer explained that she had declined numerous trans roles because she no longer wanted her identity to be the centre of her career and found it reductive to be systematically introduced as a trans actress first. A few months later, she also disputed the activist label frequently applied to her.

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On Call Her Daddy, Schafer explained that her relationship with Euphoria co-star Dominic Fike had ended partly after she discovered that he had been unfaithful, an experience she described as profoundly transformative.

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Schafer liked and commented with several exclamation marks on a lengthy Instagram post attributing to some non-binary activists a share of responsibility for weakening medical access to transition. Queer and trans fans accused her of endorsing a transmedicalist view and blaming non-binary people.

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While still a high-school student, Schafer joined the ACLU and Lambda Legal federal lawsuit against HB2, a North Carolina law notably requiring people to use toilets corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificate. Her case became a national example of the legal conflict over transgender rights.

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