The singer took to Instagram to share a post calling out gender reveal
parties as transphobic.
The post states that “it both insincere and incorrect to pretend that
gender reveal parties are not transphobic. This is not about political
correctness, it’s just … correct.”
It added: “We condemn gender reveals not because of our identity, but
because of reality. Gender reveals are based on the illusion that genitals =
gender and that there are only two options ‘boy or girl’. This definition
erases the fact that there are boys with vaginas and girls with penises and
that there are people who are neither boys nor girls. The idea that sex is
based on genitalia is inconsistent with science.”
She wrote in a caption thanking transgender rights activist, Alok Vaid Menon:
“Thank you for sharing your knowledge and educating us always. The refusal to
acknowledge this stems from a misunderstanding of what transphobia is.
“Transphobia is not just prejudice or violence against an individual
trans-person, it is a belief system that presumes non-trans-people to be more
“natural” than trans-people. Only individual people can self-determine their
gender.”
Demi Lovato has long been an outspoken ally of the LGBTQ
community.
