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Demi Lovato opens up about choosing she/her pronouns again - 'It's just all about respect'

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In 2021, Demi Lovato came out as non-binary and adopted they/them pronouns.

She announced in a video posted on Twitter: "I feel 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."

However, the singer recently appeared on the Spout Podcast hosted by Tamara Dhia and revealed she's been using she/her pronouns again.  

Demi shared this after the host asked her to explain the concept of they/them pronouns. 

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"I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced in my masculine and feminine energy so that when I was faced with a choice of walking into a bathroom, and it said 'women' and 'men', I didn't feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn't feel necessarily like a woman," she shared on the podcast. 

Demi, who has always been open about her identity, added, "I just felt like a human. And that's what they/them is about for me. It's just about like, feeling human at your core."

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The Sorry Not Sorry singer said she feels more feminine now. So she has adopted she/her again but is still comfortable with they/them pronouns. 

"But I think what's important is, like, nobody's perfect. 

"Everyone messes up pronouns at some point, and especially when people are learning. It's just all about respect," she said on the podcast.


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