Lady Gaga didn’t feel that fixing the rumor that she was a man was in the best interest of others. Gaga revealed why she consistently dodged questions about the claim during the early years of her career. “The reason I didn’t answer the question was because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie,” Gaga told Bill Gates in his new series, “What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates,” which dropped on Netflix yesterday. “But I thought about, what about a kid that’s being accused of that, that would think that a public figure like me would feel shame.” Gaga said the rumor began in the 2010s after an altered image of herself went viral online. “There was this imagery on the internet that had been doctored and they were like, ‘You know there’s this rumor that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?'” Gaga recalled. During her rise to fame, the singer tried to change the narrative when asked the question. “I’ve been in situations where fixing a rumor was not in the best interest of other people,” Gaga told Gates. “So in that case, I tried to be thought-provoking and disruptive in another way. I tried to use the misinformation to create another disruptive point.”