‘Everyone messes up’
In a conversation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Smith explained what the pronoun change has meant for them. “Since changing my pronouns, it felt like a coming home,” they said, according to the Independent. “I wish I knew what the words were when I was in school, because I would’ve identified as that in school. Because it is who I am and it’s who I’ve always been.”
Acknowledging the complexity of adjusting language habits, both for others and for themselves, they added: “What’s hard is people changing their vocabulary; that’s very, very difficult. It takes time. Everyone messes up. I’m going to be misgendered to the day I die.”
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