Singer and actress Demi Lovato has just come out as nonbinary. Lovato will use they/them pronouns from now on.
In a series of social media posts, the “Give Your Heart a Break” singer said they had come to the discovery “after a lot of healing and self-reflective work.”
“Today is a day I’m so happy to share more of my life with you all- I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward,” Lovato said. “I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression, and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering.”
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“I’m still learning & coming into myself, & I don’t claim to be an expert or a spokesperson. Sharing this with you now opens another level of vulnerability for me,” they added. “I’m doing this for those out there that haven’t been able to share who they truly are with their loved ones. Please keep living in your truths & know I am sending so much love your way.”
Every day we wake up, we are given another opportunity & chance to be who we want & wish to be. I’ve spent the majority of my life growing in front of all of you… you’ve seen the good, the bad, & everything in between. pic.twitter.com/HSBcfmNruo
— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) May 19, 2021
Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all- I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward ?
— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) May 19, 2021
The announcement comes after the recent release of Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, a YouTube documentary series produced by OBB Sound that offered viewers a deep dive into the singer’s personal woes. Lovato offered candid, public discussion of their struggles with mental health, substance abuse, and also came out as a survivor of rape. In March, Lovato also came out as queer.
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MissTerri
Good for “them”! NEEEXT!!!
justsimple
This woman is desperate for any publicity.
sfhairy
Ohhhhhh noooooo, Demi hasn’t been in the news since her froyo disaster, so now she’s jumping on the binary confusion wagon.
LumpyPillows
You can tell they’re a clown when when go the nonbinary route. Nonbinary is shorthand for attention whore.
strap2900
I have to agree, what is a they or them. You are either a man or a woman, period. Why doesn’t she just call herself she and sleep with women if she wants. I don’t get it. Does every butch bisexual woman or gay man have to be a they or them? This needs to stop, right now. I realize there is a trans community, but this is just ridiculous.
Raphael
This was very well put.
Dixie Rect
She continues to be messy. Don’t support her mental illness.
Donston
And of course, the comments are bitchy and dismissive. But many of y’all don’t have the same heat for people who have done overtly bad shit, especially if they’re decent looking, white bio males. While y’all do know that you can disagree with the way people use identities without being a disrespectful jackass. (I sometimes forget that that’s not how it goes on the internet).
Demi has clearly gone through some traumas, addictions and mental health struggles. And she can be annoying. But at least she’s being honest about those struggles instead of trying to gloss over them and only focusing on her career and image like many people in entertainment. While people need to respect how varied sexuality, gender and the gender, romantic, sexual, affection, emotion, commitment spectrum is.
Sense of gender, gender expressions, mannerisms and masculinity/femininity can be as fluid or contradictory as anything else. I’m not a fan of the them/they stuff. Ultimately, you’re still just one person even if you have some gender dimensions, fluidity or even multiple personalities. It’s a very awkward way to use the human language. It only really works on social media. Otherwise, it’s just not practical. I feel some other terminology needs to evolve and replace this them/they stuff. However, I do respect self-identity.
MissTerri
Thank you for that FASCINATING essay, dear!!!
Centrism
The litany of ‘spectrums’ you keep referencing are just the by-product of neuroticism and half-baked ideology based on bad research. It’s a bunch of bull.
Donston
Sweetie, call it what you want. But it’s the nature of people. While psychology affects every aspect of a person. So, what you’re saying doesn’t really contradict anything I say. I get it. I was like you once. However, after doing real research (reading books and articles not just talking to friends or randoms on social media), talking to many people over the years and experiencing what I’ve experienced, I see things differently. I’m interested in respecting people, their individual struggles and knowing things thoroughly. Why are some folks so threatened by that? Even if you don’t get something or don’t agree with something, just try not to be an asshat about it. The fact that you can’t help being disrespectful just reflects your own insecurities/how threatened you are.
Most of these comments are bitchy and dismissive (like many of the comments here tend to be). Then you wonder why folks don’t like you or don’t want to keep it real with you or call you an old-head.
Cam
Not sure why people get so fired up about this. If she wants me to call her Lisa instead of Demi that’s fine, if she wants me to call her “they” instead of “her” that’s fine. It really isn’t a big part of my day.
inbama
It’s probably the highlight.
mastik8
Another car accident that we can’t help looking at as we drive by.