Sitting down for Greenpeace’s Fire Drill Fridays, Lovato told Fonda that the reason the “held back” from coming out was due to the “patriarchy” “If I had listened to the patriarchy, my life would have never changed.
My gender, my pronouns would have never changed, Lovato explained. “I realised… after years of living my life for other people, trying to make myself smaller for the patriarchy because they run the industry, they are at the centre of everything. “When I realised that, I thought, ‘What are the ways that the patriarchy has been holding me back?’ And for me, it was putting me in a box, telling [me], ‘You are a female, this is what you’re supposed to do, don’t dream bigger and don’t speak louder.'” Lovato went on to say that their