To feel incredibly sorry for Eddie Izzard

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I don't want to pity Eddie but I felt a wave of sadness after reading that Rosie Duffield (MP) said she would rather be arrested than refer to Eddie as a woman.

Is being make and using the women's toilets, boasting about in-nerving teenage girls while using women's toilets, 'decent values'?

Does he have anything left to promote? I hear he's been cut out of all his fashion deals and quite rightly. My ExH has bi-polar and it's a bastard. I really felt for Kim Kardashian by the end of their marriage.

Genuine question for anybody who might know- can Eddie actually be listed and elected as a “female” M.P. If elected if Eddie isn’t in possession of a GRC? And if Eddie decided to return or remain to being gender fluid how do we count how many female M.P.s we have representing women in the country? Coz if they can how then do we monitor female representation?

this is one of the issues right now - which of the Labour politicians tweeted earlier about how there aren't any women in the new cabinet? got her arse handed to her because, of course, Labour are having an incredibly hard time actually identifying what a woman is.

Is the sex and/or gender identity of our elected representatives collated in statistics? Should it be? In a perfect world, of course, it wouldn't matter since we would all be striving for equality, in all respects. But it isn't perfect. But now I'm wondering how we know there are female MPs. Maybe they don't feel female but have a female coded name, look like a woman (boobs, maybe long hair and a skirt?) and were AFAB. But maybe they don't identify as a woman but aren't out yet. What does that do to statistics? representation?

Lol it does make me laugh that there’s some crack squad of reporting visitors who start complaining the moment anything on this subject is posted in AIBU

its like some kind of bat signal goes out

My heart bleeds.

Feel more sorry for the teenagers he terrorised in a single sex space and whose fear he used for part of his act.

OFGS bloody autocorrect!

Is being male and using the women's toilets, boasting about un-nerving teenage girls while using women's toilets, 'decent values'?

Oh. Another thread on the naughty step. Truth should be hidden.

Oh yes. We know the lurkers are out there….

We've given the little women a little room to discuss these things. I don't understand why they keep insisting on discussing it in public.

Back to the naughty corner girls!

Fucks sake. Why can't we discuss AIBU posts in AIBU when the OP was asking for a breadth of opinions?? I know they came across as somewhat naive on the issue, but.....why confine all threads like this to feminism where lots of people who haven't properly considered these issues won't be looking.
Keep us in the box eh? Heaven forbid a wider audience gets to consider these issues.
Fucks me right off MN, what are you so scared of?

Not sorry for him in the least. Good for Rosie Duffield.

@Lockheart "RD said she'd rather go to prison than call EI a woman. But he's never demanded to be called a woman, as far as I can tell.

Why start an argument over nothing? There are plenty of other things he and the TRA movement have done that should be focussed on rather than something that has apparently never happened"

If he has never demanded to be called a woman, why is he going into women's toilets? What kind of man wants to go into women's toilets if he doesn't want to be called a woman?

Good men stay out so bad men stand out

I think the brave people are those in the public eye who are gender critical. All the abuse and death and rape threats they receive! They are the brave ones.

Well spotted. It got moved while I was reading it 🙄

Presumably because he thinks he's a woman (or wants to be). That doesn't mean he's demanded to be called one.

Imagine then, what it is like to be a woman and have lots of men the you that you're not as "womany" as they are.

Gender IS NOT SEX.

Sex is biological, identifiable, and immutable.

Gender is a social construct - an expectation in any society of how male people and female people (the TWO SEXES) are expected to behave. It changes from agae to age and varies across cultures.

By all means, smash those gender stereotypes. Let men wear make up and what are considered "women's" clothes if they want to, and similarly for women - but no-one changes sex. It is not physically possible. Ask Lord (Sir Robert) Winston.

I wonder if it would have gotten moved if the comments had been agreeing with the OP and praising EI? Might just be me being cynical…

Perhaps it will stop if you pop to B&Q.

I find Wickes a bit more manly than B&Q!

Hasn't Eddie said either pronoun is ok though but prefers she? Happy to be corrected if not.

Gender fluid? What a load of wanky nonsense

@Lockheart

i think the good news here, regarding the thread, is that some of the earlier posts that got zapped for refering to EI with male pronouns, have now been reinstated as MN determined he's happy with any and all pronouns.
So that's nice

@AmIThatMam Is he coming into the changing room penis first?

Doesn't matter what he's doing with his penis. If he has (or had one, and let's be honest not a lot of men go down that route funnily enough) he has no right to be there. Whether he keeps it nicely tucked in or not.

I want to be =/= I demand that you call me.