AceShowbiz - Singer Grimes is hoping to allow her baby to choose their own gender identity.

The "Genesis" star, who is dating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, took part in a YouTube live stream on Friday (February 21), during which she was asked by one fan if she's expecting a boy or a girl.

Replying, Grimes said: "I don't want to say the gender of the baby... because I feel like their privacy should be protected. I don't think they can consent to being famous or being in public."

Adding that she doesn't want to "gender them" in case they don't identify as that, she continued: "And I don't want to gender them in case that's not how they feel in their life. I don't know, I just feel like it doesn't need to be known... They may decide their fate and identity."

Elsewhere in the chat, the 31-year-old star, real name Claire Boucher, told fans she does have a name picked out for her unborn child, but will be keeping it a secret for now.

"I have a name for the baby, but I don't want to say what it is because everyone I've told it hates it, and everyone's gonna make fun of it. But it is, in fact, a genius name and people just don't appreciate it yet because it's too avant-garde."

The baby will be her first, while Musk, 48, is already a father of five from his previous marriage to Canadian author Justine Wilson, whom he divorced in 2008.