Eddie Izzard….has he reverted back to male ID

Poor Eddie was the victim of those powerful cruel schoolgirls.

And when I finally came out of the cubicle, they shouted, “Hey, mate! Hey, mister! Why are you wearing makeup? Why are you dressed as a woman?”
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I shouted back, “You want to know why I’m wearing a dress? I’ll tell you why.”

But before I could say anything else, the girls just screamed and ran off in the other direction.

They challenged him, he shouted at them, scaring them. They ran away.

Is a young woman in the gents any kind of a threat to the men there? Obviously not.
If anyone’s running any kind of risk, it’s the young woman.

Is an adult man a potential threat to teenage girls in the women’s toilets? Yes, of course he is. Have you heard of #metoo and Everyone’s Invited, by any chance? Seen any of the stats on the ubiquity of male sexual harassment and assault EVERYWHERE?

If you are in that tiny minority of women who’ve never experienced any form of it, have you never spoken/listened to any other women on the subject? Are you aware of basic biological realities that mean it’s within the ability of most men to overpower a woman or girl if they so choose, and not within the ability of most women or girls to effectively defend themselves against a determined, predatory man?

Or are you one of those reality deniers who think that women could fend off a man twice their size and weight if they just tried a bit harder?

None of which is to say that EI is a predator. But the fact is he’s very, very obviously male, and to those girls at that time he was an unknown quantity, so his presence in the women’s toilets would have been unnerving for those girls in a way your presence in the men’s toilets would never have been for the men in there.

Because they don’t live with the knowledge of being physically relatively vulnerable to the opposite sex. Whereas women do. The vast majority of women factor this vulnerability into the plans they make when out and about alone. Men don’t experience physical vulnerability relative to women in the same way at all.

I can’t believe this stuff has to be spelled out, or even said at all. Are we also going to have to write long theses proving that water is wet, that people cannot survive without food and water, that it’s light in the daytime and dark at night, before anyone will accept the validity of those concepts?

Oh, and he wasn’t using the women’s toilets because the men’s were full. He was appropriating a women only space for himself because he felt entitled to. Because he could. Because it felt good to him. It was what he wanted to do. Not out of any need and a structurally unequal lack of male toilet provision - because that particular structural inequality, like so many others, doesn’t impact men: it only impacts women.

I always thought Izzard was a transvestite not a transexual 😳 I must have missed about a decade of his most recent life 😂

Eddie Izzard has never said "I've always known I was a woman" or anything similar.
He isn't a trans woman and has never claimed to be one.

Oops.

Not been doing your homework, Blueberry? You’ll fail your Grand Inquisitor/Master Oppressor final exam if you carry on like that.

And then you’ll have to rely on just your bog standard male privilege to keep on oppressing biologically female people as much as you like.

Waitwhat23
How do you know that is what happened? Where did you source this information. He was also 23 (a very long time ago). I too, when younger used male toilets when the ladies was full. I wouldn't do it now (too smelly) but when I was younger I didn't care so much.

Dh saw him cycling his bike wearing a dress the other day 🤷‍♀️

The Izzard of Was. Genius.

The Izzard of was is a stroke of genius.

Superb! Thank you so much h for that. The Izzard of Was. You win the internet today

Wht do you think girls should do when they encounter a man in their toilets? I am teaching my DD that she should scream loudly and do anything she can to attract attention.

He's not the hero of that story.

He will just switch back and forth whenever he drops out of the limelight. The Izzard of Was.

Thanks for that link LangCleg. The commentary does quite nicely point up a certain self-absorption on the part of EI doesn't it?

So I have now read that when EI was 23 he had his first outing out as a woman. He went in a public loo to quickly change and 3 girls followed him out of the loo taunting him about why he was dressed as a woman. ?

How lovely to pick and choose which bits of womanhood you can be bothered with.

Absolutely. I used to like Izzard's gender-bending clothes, but he disgusted me by boasting about scaring off three 13-year-old girls who had the courage to challenge him after he used a women's toilet. I was astonished by how perfectly justified he felt in invading their space, and how heroic he felt after chasing them away.
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…serious or heavyweight enough for the discussion about it now, I meant to say.

I remember him always using the word transvestite too, I wonder why it's fallen out of favour these days? Did they drop it because 'trans' covers everything without having to be specific?

Eddie Redmayne was very heavily criticised for daring to play a transwoman in The Danish Girl.

Why is it OK for Eddie as a transwoman to play male roles but not OK for a man to play a transwoman??

Either anyone can play anything or everyone must stay in their lane.

And the problem with Eddie shouting at a group of teenage girls (I think he said they were around 15 years old) in a Women's toilet is that people are judgemental arseholes? Eddie certainly thought so. Is that your view?