Demi Lovato Shares Post That Calls Gender Reveal Parties Transphobic

Demi Lovato on Gender Reveal Parties: Singer-songwriter Demi Lovato shared an Instagram post that criticises the trend of gender reveal parties, and called them ‘transphobic’.

The post shared by Lovato was originally written by someone else and then reposted from Lovato’s account. The post is titled, “Why gender reveals are transphobic”.

Demi Lovato on Gender Reveal Parties

The post is captioned, “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.”

The post states that “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.”

Demi Lovato’s post talks about how being cis-gendered is treated as the ‘default’. It states that it implies that people might identify as trans now, but they were born cis-gender and ‘became trans’. It is then stated that “In truth, everyone is just born. And we all become after the fact.” The post also discussed how the gender binary leads to the ideals of how men and women should behave and plays into gender roles and defends the cultural myths by calling them ‘biological facts’.

Gender reveal parties are hosted by expecting parents that announce the gender of their baby, often by unveiling an item that is either blue (for boys) or pink (for girls). Several gender reveal attempts that went wrong have to lead to disastrous results, such as causing a 45,000 acre, death of a father-to-be in an explosion, and a plane crash.