Steve-O is not moving forward with his long-publicized plan to get breast implants as a joke. The Jackass star recently revealed why he decided to cancel the procedure in an interview with Consequence of Sound. “On the day the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket, and the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe,” Steve-O said. “So 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.” “I didn’t really have any dedicated meetings or conversations with trans people because I didn’t really feel that I had to,” he went on to explain. “I knew what my motivation was, I knew what my intention was, and it wasn’t to be hurtful to anybody.
I was just trying to get laughs. I had done a bunch of workshop shows to test out material, and I had a number of trans people come to me after the shows to voice support for [the stunt].
And I think some people would’ve been okay with it, and some people wouldn’t have. It would’ve been a mixed bag.” However, after Steve-O spoke to the cashier, he said: “I just feel like the universe put this encounter before me, and ultimately I decided that the universe had intervened.” “[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 in internment camps. It was really pretty heartbreaking, the level of oppression that was described,” he explained. “Framed like that, I thought about it in a way that I hadn’t before, where you know, wow, maybe it’s not all fun and games.