Demi Lovato says using they/them pronouns was ‘absolutely exhausting’

In a new interview with GQ Hype Spain, Demi Lovato opened up about her decision to publicly use she/her pronouns after previously expressing that she identified more with the pronouns they/them.

“I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns,” Lovato told the outlet, translated from Spanish to English by People. “It was absolutely exhausting. I just got tired. But for that very reason, I know that it is important to continue spreading the word.”

Lovato also said that she wishes there were more public gender-neutral spaces. “I face this every day,” she said. “For example, in public toilets. Having to access the women’s bathroom, even though I don’t completely identify with it. Or it also happens when filling out forms, such as government documents or any other 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.”

In her March 2021 Glamour cover story, Demi Lovato opened up about her identity, saying, “I know who I am and what I am, but I’m just waiting until a specific timeline to come out to the world as what I am. I’m following my healers’ timeline, and I’m using this time to really study and educate myself on my journey and what I’m preparing to do.”

Lovato then came out as nonbinary that May in a video shared on Instagram. “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 and will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward,” Lovato said.

A year later, in August 2022, the “Cool for the Summer” singer explained that she had gone back to using the pronouns she/her. “I’ve actually adopted the pronouns of she/her again,” she said on the Sprout podcast. “I’m such a fluid person…. I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced and my masculine and feminine energy so that when I was faced with the 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. I didn’t feel like a man. 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.”

This story originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.