Demi Lovato Is Non Binary, Comes Out As They/Them

Demi Lovato has been known as many things in life — a Disney star, the ex bae of Wilmer Valderrama, a Grammy nominee, and an always-evolving pop singer that many people look up for. One thing you might not have been so aware of? A struggle with gender identity.

This week, Lovato broke the internet when headlines came out that she, well, came out! Demi Lovato identifies as non-binary, and they revealed it to the world on the first episode of their new podcast called 4D. Expanding further, Demi said, “Over the past year and a half, I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work, I’ve had the revelation that I identify as non-binary. With that said, I’ll be officially changing my pronouns to they/them.”

According to the Human Rights Campaign, “Non-binary can also be used as an umbrella term encompassing identities such as agender, bigender, genderqueer or gender-fluid.”

This seemed to be completely out of left field for many people to discover, but it makes sense when you look at the bigger Demi revealed that past struggles with addictions and other problems were a byproduct of not coming to term with this non-binary identity. Lovato says this transformation and the reveal represent the “fluidity I feel in my gender expression and allows me to feel most authentic and rue to the person I both know I am and am still discovering.”