{"id":3880,"date":"2016-05-23T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/demi-lovatos-billboard-music-awards-look-supports-gender-natural-bathrooms\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:30:14","slug":"demi-lovatos-billboard-music-awards-look-supports-gender-natural-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/demi-lovatos-billboard-music-awards-look-supports-gender-natural-bathrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Demi Lovato&#039;s Billboard Music Awards look supports gender natural bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demilovato\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzIzL2EyL2RlbWlsb3ZhdG8uNDA1NGIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/0bed8d44\/f08\/demilovato.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Demi+Lovato%27s+Billboard+Music+Awards+look+supports+gender+natural+bathrooms&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F22%2Fdemi-lovato-gender-neutral-bathrooms-billboard%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F22%2Fdemi-lovato-gender-neutral-bathrooms-billboard%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/demi-lovato\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Demi Lovato<\/a> will never shy away from the chance to make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>During her Billboard Music Awards performance of &#8220;Cool For the Summer,&#8221; she wore a shirt (featuring a composite of the traditional men&#8217;s and women&#8217; restroom symbols) that seems to send a rhinestoned message in favor of gender neutral restrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/16\/laura-jane-grace-north-carlina\/\">Trans rocker Laura Jane Grace sets birth certificate on fire in North Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Lovato and Nick Jonas recently <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/25\/demi-lovato-nick-jonas-north-carolina-cancelled\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">cancelled<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> their scheduled concerts in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina in protest of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/23\/north-carolina-anti-trans-bathroom-bill\/\">the state&#8217;s House Bill 2<\/a>. 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During her Billboard Music Awards performance of &#8220;Cool For the Summer,&#8221; she wore a shirt (featuring a composite of the traditional men&#8217;s and women&#8217; restroom symbols) that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/demi-lovatos-billboard-music-awards-look-supports-gender-natural-bathrooms\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3003,1182,1981,1379,735],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-billboard-music-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-north-carolina","tag-pop-star","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}