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Former Disney star Demi Lovato earlier this year came out as "non-binary," which means she identifies as neither male nor female and prefers to use the pronouns "they/them." At the time she was hailed as a brave, groundbreaking role model, so much so that she brought Jane Fonda to tears over it.

Now she's not being quite so feted. This week she claimed that she might not remain "non-binary" her whole life:

I definitely think it's a journey forever. There might be a time where I identify as trans. I don't know what this looks like for me. There might be a time where I identify as non-binary and gender-nonconforming my entire life.

Sorry to break it to you, Demi, but you went ahead and stepped on a proverbial gender-nonconforming banana peel. People are not at all happy over this:

To me, as a transwoman, I just find this sort of thing incredibly offensive where people feel as though they can just identify as trans.

Being trans is not an identity, it's a physical and mental misalignment from your psyche and your body. It gives you crippling anxiety, it makes you hate yourself, from the time you have consciousness. This isn't something that you have an epiphany about when you're, like 22 or, in her case, whatever age she is. It just drives me crazy because Demi Lovato is an authority on trans issues now in the mainstream media.

The singer took further heat on social media:

In the ruthless world of LGBT politics, allegiances can shift in a second, and former heroes can become pariahs more quickly than you can blink.

Lovato didn't help matters by adding: "Maybe there's a period of time when I get older that I identify as a woman, I don't know what that looks like."

Honestly, we're not sure what any of this looks like anymore.

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