Hunter Schafer baulks at activist label: “I’m just a tranny who’s famous”

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Euphoria, but has become increasingly vocal about not wanting to be defined by her gender identity.“I just happen to be a person who’s part of a marginalized community in the public eye, and people love to call me an activist,” she told Rolling Stone. “It’s like, ‘No.

I’m just a tranny who’s famous,’ you know?”Indeed, Schafer said back in April that she no longer wants to play transgender roles. “I worked so hard to get to where I am, past these really hard points in my transition, and now I just want to be a girl and finally move on,” she told GQ.“I’ve gotten offered tonnes of trans roles, and I just don’t want to do it.

I don’t want to talk about it.”She added that she sometimes feels guilty given her responsibility in the trans community: “I know for a fact that I’m one of the most famous trans people in media right now, and I do feel a sense of responsibility, and maybe a little bit of guilt, for not being more of a spokesperson.“But ultimately, I really do believe that not making it the centrepiece to what I’m doing will allow me to get further.

And I think getting further and doing awesome shit, in the interest of ‘the movement,’ will be way more helpful than talking about it all the time.”In other news, Schafer recently revealed that her relationship with Dominic Fike ended because he cheated on her.