Hunter Schafer Says Her December Bottom Surgery Was 'Amazing'
Hunter Schafer has undergone gender-affirming bottom surgery, the Euphoria star told Elle. “I just had bottom surgery in December, which was amazing, and I love it so much,” she said. According to Elle, Schafer described hitting a wall again and again where a theoretical queer utopia did not match up with the world she encountered every day, and the way she personally wanted to show up in it. As Variety frames it, every trans person is different, and a medical transition was the right decision for Schafer.
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The striking part is the timing, given how she has handled the subject before. She said a couple of years ago that she did not want her identity to overshadow her work and had tried to avoid saying the word “trans” during interviews; “as soon as I say it, it gets blastoff,” she said. That makes a magazine interview about surgery look less like a reversal than a decision about when the subject becomes hers to raise.
I would not read the destination as a narrowing, though. She described having viewed her gender identity as more fluid and now landing somewhere “flatter” — “I’m a woman” — while also calling evolution the “magical thing about queerness”: possibility and expansion and growth, being on the journey and finding yourself. A flatter landing is not a smaller story; it is the same story with less hedging.