It was listening to Izzard read this out on Book of the Week on R4 a few years ago that peaked me. I was listening because I liked him - funny gender-bending comedian, charity marathon hero etc etc - but I sat there listening to this and thinking... W.T.F.??
And I thought it over and over afterwards, trying to work out if I was being homophobic or something (I think in those innocent days I was still a stranger to the all-encompassing concept of transphobia) and I just got more and more fucking angry. At the entitlement and the utter ignorance of the experience of women and girls. The blatant disregard of them, and his unapologetic, unashamed willingness to dismiss their needs, their rights, their perspective as insignificant. Misogyny unmasked.