‘Gender Fluid’ Celebrities Like Demi Lovato Are Defining New Moral Relativism

Pop star Demi Lovato announced Tuesday in a video on her Instagram account and podcast, “4D with Demi Lovato,” that the singer now identifies as nonbinary.

This appears to be an increasingly popular decision among celebrities that is harmful to young people and represents America’s increasing decline toward embracing moral relativism as a whole.

“Over the past year-and-a-half, I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work,” Lovato said. “And through this work, I’ve had the revelation that I identify as nonbinary.  With that said, I’ll be officially changing my pronouns to they/them. I feel that 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 am still discovering.”

Lovato went on to say that she is making this announcement because “I was ignoring my truth, and I was suppressing who I really am in order to please stylists or team members or this or that, or even fans that wanted me to be the sexy, feminine pop star in the … leotard and look a certain way, you know?”

In March, Lovato announced during an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that the singer was pansexual. “I’m so fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was super closeted off,” Lovato said. “I heard someone call the LGBTQIA+ community the ‘Alphabet Mafia.’ I’m part of the Alphabet Mafia and proud.”

While Lovato certainly isn’t the first pop star to label herself as nonbinary, she does seem to be joining an uptick of celebrities making similar pronouncements. There are at least 13 popular celebrities, working right now, who consider themselves nonbinary.

Why now? A common misconception is that people are now less afraid to announce themselves as nonbinary thanks to the prevalence of the LGBTQ community in everyday life. 

However, it makes more sense to view the wave of new nonbinary people as a popularity contest, a contagious frenzy: Making such a claim grants attention to stars who crave it. If the person is truly struggling with identity or gender issues, embracing this new lifestyle might at first seem to “fix” that crisis temporarily.

Even if a person is struggling with recognizing where they fit in a world of two genders, pop star or not, it’s dangerous to applaud a bold statement like this with fervor, as many already have. 

Lovato’s adoring fans are mostly teens and preteens, a particularly impressionable age group. The teen years are already tumultuous ones full of self-esteem issues, battling parental boundaries, and craving acceptance from peers. This will only compound problems.