Kim Petras Calls Out "Gross" Comments About Hunter Schafer's Surgery
Kim Petras wants to take a detour from these reactions. After Euphoria star Hunter Schafer shared that she made the decision to undergo gender-affirming bottom surgery, the “Unholy” singer came to...
The Against Me! singer can trace back feelings of gender dysphoria into her childhood days. "It was just this thing that I felt like, 'This is what I want to do. I'm a girl. I need to express this part of me,'" she recalled in a 2014 cover story for Magnet magazine. "It was like this thing that would build to the point like you would get such anxiety until you had the chance to be alone behind a locked door and express that part of yourself. And that just kind of continued as I got older."
To "turn those feelings off" and "forget about the reality," Laura said she became heavily involved in drugs and alcohol, spending years wrestling with depression as a result. It wasn't until she was in her '30s when she realized that "these feelings aren't going away" and came out as transgender in 2012.
"I'm very much figuring it out day by day, what it all means, and trying to navigate my life going forward," she admitted. "And I'm a f--king wreck in a lot of ways. But at the same time, I've overcome something that was holding me back in so many ways, and I know that's a very good thing."
