Hunter Schafer says she had bottom surgery in December

Actor and model Hunter Schafer said she underwent gender-affirming bottom surgery in December and described the experience positively, according to an interview published October 19. The 27-year-old said the procedure was amazing and that she loved it. Her account of the surgery and recovery comes from that interview; the reports reviewed trace back to the same conversation. Schafer said she had spent a long time trying to make her previous body work, seeing value in a gender-expansive understanding of herself. Over time, she said, medical transition came to feel right for her. She described her current understanding of her gender as less fluid, saying, “I’m a woman. I’m a girl.” She also emphasized that her decision was personal and does not define what is right for other transgender people. Schafer said she chose to discuss the surgery partly because she had been thinking about the tension between queer ideals of possibility and how those ideas apply in everyday life. Schafer said recovery early this year limited her to about 150 steps a day. Friends and family visited while she recovered, she said. The account does not provide further medical details about the procedure....