Eddy Izzard says women should be forced to share bathrooms with men

Middle Ages white dude

yeah, I find his take on women’s issues pretty regressive, but maybe not that regressive...Dunno though, maybe men telling women what we should think hasn’t changed much since then.

What an utter turd you are Izzard. Another Middle Ages white dude telling women what's good for them. Fucker.

I have a list of men whom I shall never forgive for their betrayal of women.

Izzard is near to the top of it.

There isn't a side of fuck far enough for him to fuck off to, so far as I am concerned.

I don't know who this man is and I don't care. I do care about women's spaces. He wants to abolish urinals. Well, as one MNer said above:

How do Men feel having no urinals and standing in a line ?

Urinals make it quicker.

Not only that. If there are no urinals men will pee in the cubicles, sprinkling the floor with urine (this always happens as the loos are too low; the pee sprays and leaves a film on the floor). They will either pee on the seat as well, or leave it up. They won't clean up their urine. They will leave the cubicle door open when they pee. The place will stink.
And women will lose their privacy.

Men don't know about these matters. How dare they speak so flippantly? The entitlement is infuriating.
I'm also disappointed that Joe didn't argue more robustly, as he did on the sport discussion.

Men. Grrrr. (I know. #notallmen)

I think he's talking from a place of male privilege. Going to the toilet is a need, not something people just do for fun, so to add a potential danger to women and girls is just insanity. Nobody wants to fear going to the toilet in a public place, making all toilets unisex would undoubtedly add this for a lot of people.

Bitterly disappointed in Eddie. Loved him in his action transvestite and multiple marathon iterations.

Not loving his latest iteration as woker than thou lefty dude bro falling over himself to give away women’s rights that he doesn’t have the first idea about. His referring to his “girl genes and boy genes”, when he’s in his fifties made me feel quite ill.

Who does Eddy actually identify with. he is not a 'transwoman', he is just a bisexual bloke who wears women's clothes and happens to speak french very well lol

I liked his comedy but it is summed up well that he changes his look according to his politics/ etc

No thanks. What if it were those stupid toilets with massive gaps where u can see people and their feet or ones with no door!!! Oh hi there how are you today? Changing s tampon with a strange man looking on....yes we would love that.

If Izzard is serious about a career in politics, Izzard should make an effort to be much better briefed and have the evidence to support their arguments prepared.

Eddie Izzard is fiercely intelligent. I think the reasons he makes such pathetic arguments (it stopped bullying in some school somewhere, don't ask me any details) are twofold:

1. There really are no strong arguments. Neither sex wants to share bathrooms (in most situations) for lots of practical reasons. Thinking too hard about his philosophy of 'everyone just be nice and it will all be fine' would show up the problems (like removing urinals will not reduce ques).

1. He's not serious about politics or anything else. He's flitted around so many goals in his career, but in recent years seems particularly incapable of thinking deeply and sticking to something.

It all starts to look like desperate and pathetic bits for attention

What's the word for someone who furthers his own career by giving away other people's hard-won rights at no expense to himself?

I don’t think there’s a single word which expresses this in English, but “elitist”, “opportunistic”, “self-serving” and “parasitical” go some of the way.

I absolutely despise Eddie Izzard. Why on earth would any of us give any oxygen to a man who dresses up as a woman just for his own entertainment and pleasure. He has no idea what it is like being a woman, nor does he care. He is just another man encroaching on our space, making our lives a little less safe and miserable.

Also, have you seen the state of him. He looks a mess. He looks like something that would be right at home sitting in the corner of the Rovers Return with Enid Sharples and Hilda Ogden.

I actually pity him. He got off on being controversial but now with all these hard core transgender women on the scene he has been relegated to vanilla and is just someone to be pitied as a sad f*cker.

If there were gender neutral bathrooms, many women and some men would be afraid to use them, especially if they have continence issues. There would be physical and mental health issues that resulted, and some people would possibly be afraid to leave the house or attend certain events/places.

What's the word for someone who furthers his own career by giving away other people's hard-won rights at no expense to himself?

Careful Eddie, your SEX is showing!

Well that was a case study in whataboutery. If Izzard is serious about a career in politics, Izzard should make an effort to be much better briefed and have the evidence to support their arguments prepared. Wibbling on about the Romans really doesn’t cut it.

Eddie who?never heard of him

I am an older woman (over 50 ) so I've been seeing the change over a good few years. I will say I admit to not feeling particularly bothered if a male toilet attendant is in the female toilets when I am in there. I am also ok if I see an obviously trans man in the toilet ( who knows if there are many more who I don't notice ) But mixed sex toilets - no .

I agree Crinkle, they sound fine.
However there is a huge difference between staff toilets in a work place and public toilets in a restaurant/bar/shopping centre.

If not why the hell you wanna invite them into the ladies?

Dont forget when asked why they would support an idea that would allow the very men they were escaping to follow them into the ladies we were told "it would never happen"

They really are making it up as they go along.

Thankfully, it isn't up to him.

As Ed Butz (speaking about contraception) said to the Pope in 1974: “ You no playa da game, you no maka da rules!”
Izzard is not a woman - he has absolutely no right to dictate the giving away of women’s safety, privacy and dignity. We should be the only gatekeepers of our own spaces- our toilets, changing rooms, sports and prisons.
STFU, Izzard- you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Originally unisex toilets were needed to stop transwomen from literal violence in male toilets.

Now they want to let all men use the female toilets.

Which is it? Are they safe in the men's or not?

If not why the hell you wanna invite them into the ladies?

How stupid are you?