In a new interview with GQ Hype Spain, Demi Lovato once again addressed her most recent change in pronouns after publicly coming out as nonbinary two years ago.
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During an episode of the Sprout podcast back in August, Lovato announced that as a result of “feeling more feminine,” she had decided to update their pronouns to include she/her. “I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced in my masculine and feminine energy,” she said at the time. “I didn’t feel like a woman, I didn’t feel like a man. I just felt like a human.”
In their new interview, Lovato expanded on her reasoning, saying, “I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns. It was absolutely exhausting,” she said. “I just got tired. But for that very reason, I know that it is important to continue spreading the word.”
Lovato went on to express her ongoing frustration with the lack of understanding in the wider world for life as a person existing outside the gender binary. “Having to access the women’s bathroom, even though I don’t completely identify with it — I would feel more comfortable in a genderless bathroom,” they said. “Or, it also happens when filling out forms … where you have to specify your gender; you only have two options, male and female, and I feel like none of that makes sense to me.”
Still, Lovato said that the strife she’s been through in regards to their gender would be “worth it” if it meant that people “learn more about themselves and feel more comfortable in their skin,” thanks to the example they have set. “That is the most meaningful thing to me,” Demi explained. “The safe space I’ve created in the industry is proof of the safe space I’ve created in my life as well. And I think no matter what industry you’re in, you have to be comfortable to evolve.”
Recently Demi joined CHANNEL Q to talk about how important it is to them to use they/them pronouns.
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