{"id":158558,"date":"2025-05-15T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/15\/lorde-says-she-discussed-gender-identity-with-chappell-roan-im-a-woman-except-for-days-when-im-a-man-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:15:03","slug":"lorde-says-she-discussed-gender-identity-with-chappell-roan-im-a-woman-except-for-days-when-im-a-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/15\/lorde-says-she-discussed-gender-identity-with-chappell-roan-im-a-woman-except-for-days-when-im-a-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde Says She Discussed Gender Identity With Chappell Roan: \u2018I\u2019m a Woman Except for Days When I\u2019m a\u00a0Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn the lead-up to her new album Virgin<\/em>, Lorde<\/a> has started to slowly open up about her broadening gender identity with the world. But before she was ready to do that, she confided in one of her new friends: Chappell Roan<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tEverything We Know About Lorde\u2019s \u2018Virgin\u2019 So\u00a0Far\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tIn a Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> <\/em>cover story published Thursday (May 15), the New Zealand native revealed that she and the \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d singer have gotten quite close over the past year, and that one of the things they\u2019ve discussed is Lorde\u2019s changing relationship with gender. When asked how she identifies now, the \u201cRoyals\u201d artist told the publication, \u201c[Chappell Roan] asked me this \u2026 She was like, \u2018So, are you nonbinary now?’\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m a woman except for the days when I\u2019m a man,’\u201d Lorde continued. \u201cI know that\u2019s not a very satisfying answer, but there\u2019s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe musician also explained that she still identifies as a cisgender woman who uses \u201cshe\u201d and \u201cher\u201d pronouns. But the complexities of her newfound gender fluidity informed much of the June-slated Virgin<\/em>, the opening track of which Rolling Stone<\/em> reveals finds her declaring, \u201cSome days I\u2019m a woman\/ Some days I\u2019m a man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEven so, Lorde added that she doesn\u2019t think her gender expression is \u201cradical\u201d compared to what most transgender and nonbinary people face on a daily basis. In the United States in particular, the rights of LGBTQ people have been under constant threat<\/a> for years, something Roan \u2014 a longtime advocate for the community and a queer-identifying artist herself \u2014 has spoken out about<\/a> many times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI see these incredibly brave young people, and it\u2019s complicated,\u201d Lorde said. \u201cMaking the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I\u2019m not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I\u2019m, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe star\u2019s embrasure of her new gender expression is one of several personal transformations that has occurred since she last dropped an album, 2021\u2019s Solar Power<\/em>, four years ago. In addition to breaking up with Universal Music executive Justin Warren after about eight years together \u2014 \u201cIt was so painful, as they are, but there was real dignity to it,\u201d she told the publication of the split \u2014 Lorde also recovered from an eating disorder, something she\u2019s also been increasingly open about<\/a> in the weeks ahead of Virgin<\/em>\u2018s June 27 release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI felt so hungry and so weak,\u201d she recalled of being obsessed with calories and protein intakes around the time Solar Power <\/em>came out, specifically the day it dropped. \u201cI was on TV [that] morning, and I didn\u2019t eat because I wanted my tummy to be small in the dress. It was just this sucking of a life force or something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSee Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone <\/em>below.<\/p>\n

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