Steve-O Canceled Plan to Get Breast Implants for a Comedy Prank After Talking to a Transgender Person He Met on Surgery Day: ‘It’s Not All Fun and Games’

The next day Steve-O was at a grocery store and the clerk checking him out happened to be transgender, so he revealed his grand plan to get breast implants to see if it was something the clerk was comfortable with or not.

The clerk fell in the latter category and said that “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 [bad] thing.”

Additionally, the clerk “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.”

That’s when Steve-O opted not to go through with his plan to get breast implants as “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.”