Steve-O has canceled his plans to get a boob job for a comedic bit.
The “Jackass” alum, 50, explained to Consequence Thursday that after a delay in his surgery and chance conversation with a transgender person about the “oppression” they face, he changed his mind.
As part of Steve-O’s stunt, he would remove his tattoos, shave his body and flaunt his fake breasts to trick men at motorcycle rally. After flirting with them, he would remove his helmet and reveal his true gender.
The comedian said the transgender person with whom he spoke was the cashier at a grocery store he went to the day of the surgery.
The person said they did not have a problem with the breast augmentation because it was “the ultimate statement of body autonomy, me saying my body, my choice.”
However, the unnamed individual took issue with the part of the bit in which Steve-O would “deliberately” trick people into thinking that he was a woman and “then fooling them.”
The “Jackass: The Movie” star said the stunt would be perceived as him celebrating the “idea of hate towards [trans people],” adding, “That was a [bad] thing.”
The cashier also opened up to Steve-O about the many hardships trans people face every day.
“[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,” he recalled.
“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.”
Steve-O further added, “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.
“Especially the pranks. Like, I would’ve considered it to be better footage if I was to be beaten up at the motorcycle…
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