Summary
Hunter Schafer shared that her newly issued passport incorrectly lists her gender as male, a result of Trump’s executive order requiring federal documents to use sex assigned at birth.
Despite selecting female and having her gender marker changed years ago, the new policy was applied to her application.
Schafer said she wanted to raise awareness rather than cause alarm, emphasizing that trans people will continue to exist regardless of government policies.
“A letter and a passport can’t change that,” she said.
Kind of an outdated view of biological development, I think the more accurate modern one is that tissues start out undifferentiated then either default to differentiating to female or are triggered to differentiate to male. So if anything everyone’s intersex now.
OK thanks I can agree on that, I am not a biologist or very knowledgeable in that field.
Thank you! This idea that “everyone starts out female” has been blowing my mind. Roughly 50% of the population is quite explicitly not female at any time and never could be.
I mean, it’s not a huge difference, were talking about early fetal development, the gonads all develop from the same tissue, pretty much every part of the penis and vagina and broader reproductive system maps directly to corresponding similar features. It was just a question of how and when exactly that process takes place.
In case anyone wants to learn more, there’s a list of related reproductive organs on Wikipedia. (NSFW, obviously.) It’s pretty detailed.