'“I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns. It was absolutely exhausting,' said Demi Lovato.
“I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns. It was absolutely exhausting. And that is one of the reasons that have led me to also feel comfortable with the feminine pronoun,” Lovato explained in the interview, translated from Spanish. “I just got tired. But for that very reason I know that it is important to continue spreading the word.”
Sam Smith made the switch to they/them pronouns in 2019 after coming out as non-binary. “I understand there will be many mistakes and misgendering, but all I ask is you please please try,” they wrote on Twitter at the time. Lovato shared a similar sentiment a few months after their own switch, tweeting: “If you misgender me — that’s okay. I accidentally misgender myself sometimes. It’s a huge transition to change the pronouns I’ve used for myself my entire life.
In 2021, Halsey also announced that they would be using she/her and they/them pronouns interchangeably. “The inclusion of ‘they’ in addition to ‘she’ feels most authentic to me,” she told fans at the time. “If you know me at all, you know what it means to me to express this outwardly. Thanks for being the best.”
What it boils down to, essentially, is not attempting to become a spokesperson for the right or wrong way for artists, or anyone for that matter, to understand their own personal gender identity. It’s more about making space for everyone who finds themselves on the same complicated journey, which inherently includes wrestling with the process of marrying one’s internal perception with the world’s external one.
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