“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.”
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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“I’m the one that can fix it,” Cyrus told Good Morning America.
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It's nice to know that such a famous person is non-binary. This will help raise awareness to the lesser-known identities under the LGBT umbrella.
I get sick of people saying this girl is just a train wreck. She's not. She's thoughtful and she's honest. She's a young woman who's trying to find herself and she is trying to help the world with her influence and money. She also knows how to have fun without getting arrested or totally trashed. She likes to stick her tongue out, smoke hash and wear skimpy clothes. Big deal. I'm not a fan of her music, but I don't think that she's such a bad role model for young people. I have admiration for Miley Cyrus.