“Being a girl isn’t what I hate, it’s the box that I get put into.”

Miley Cyrus, known for dying her armpit hair and wearing nipple tassels, says she doesn’t want to be defined by any one gender.

The 22-year-old singer was being interviewed by Associated Press to promote the new foundation she has created to help LGBT and homeless youth when she addressed her gender.

“I didn’t want to be a boy,” she said.

“I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that’s what I had to understand: Being a girl isn’t what I hate, it’s the box that I get put into.”

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Cyrus also said not all her past relationships have been with “straight, heterosexual” males, but didn’t elaborate.

Cyrus’s revelation about her gender is an important moment for the LGBTQ community, which she strongly supports.

The charity she has begun, called The Happy Hippie Foundation, came about after she took a homeless youth named Jesse to the MTV VMAs last year and together they raised over $200,000 for homeless youth in America.

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