alt:
"Steve-O says he decided against a planned stunt to get breast implants after speaking with a trans person at a supermarket the morning of the surgery. "I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me." The person Steve-O spoke with said that "my feeling that it was the ultimate statement of body autonomy, me saying my body, my choice... That part was okay. But the part where I deliberately went out to trick people into thinking that I was a woman and then fooling them, and then kind of celebrating the idea of hate towards [trans people] — that was a thing." Additionally, they "described how they weren't allowed to use the bathroom at their place of work, that there were like maybe 28 states in the country that would arrest them for having an ID that said female on it. That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up. It was really pretty heartbreaking.""
