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.

Just looking at the trans activists outside parliament today. Many are young women. I just keep asking myself why? Exactly how does the trans movement stand to positively influence and enrich their lives? Why do they do it? Out of some misguided sense of sticking up for the underdog? The whole TWAW movement puts them as the underdogs, can’t they see that? I can see why women fall into a state of apathy (don’t want to get involved) But to give up your time to go out and march for the side that is destined in the end to do you most harm is ludicrous.

What's going on outside Parliament?

I will call Eddie a trans woman but not a woman, there is a difference. I cannot be compelled to call Eddie a woman. As for calling a 60 year old male a girl, just NO!

Where is Sheffield?
FUCK THE FUCK OFF EDDIE

haha - it's my home town. I have a related tattoo which is visible. Pretty much evryone correctly identifies the team. And even if they don't see the tattoo usually they answer with something like "Wednesday?" of "Joe Cocker/Pulp/Arctic Monkeys/Bring me the Horizon" or "Jess Ennis" and of course "Sean Bean". And then "steel" or "Orgreave" comes up

The idea that people round the world have no idea where or what it is, is laughable.

Maybe we should have a signal that it's a deliberate thing.

Do you know what I love to bake? Berry Buns. Anyone got any recipes they care to share?

What an absolutely tosser-ish thing to say.

I can feel the good people of Sheffield cringing all the way over here on the other side of the Pennines.

Eddie gets a classic Mumsnet ODFOD for that.

If they do want a supercharged councillor, there are great people there. But the thing that I bring that is different, is their activism has been local and my activism has been national and international ... Because I have a personality, I am a character, and I am known across the UK and across the world, people will be saying: ‘Eddie Izzard, so tell me about Sheffield. Where is Sheffield?

Did Eddie really say that 😳

Stand aside provincial plebs I'm just so much more important and fabulous than you are.

If they do want a supercharged councillor, there are great people there. But the thing that I bring that is different, is their activism has been local and my activism has been national and international ... Because I have a personality, I am a character, and I am known across the UK and across the world, people will be saying: ‘Eddie Izzard, so tell me about Sheffield. Where is Sheffield?

Eddie has one wish - for sheffield to be as famous as he is.

Top tip - when you see "transphobic abuse" read it as "reality".

He did. All of that and more.

In the interest of strict honesty, the two comments were separated by others in the article, they didn't run together. But he absolutely said those things.

And how he has identified as trans for 37 years. Because, in the interest of strict honesty, that's not bloody honest, is it? He 'identified' as a transvestite, not a woman.

That's what Stonewall have done. They have invented the term transgender to include transvestite, transsexual, cross dressers in general, and drag queens.

oh, and the other invented term, gender fluidity.

Here's the full article.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/27/eddie-izzard-rules-out-appearing-on-all-women-labour-mp-shortlist

He, or at least his twitter account, has retweeted a complaint about transphobia, along with racism presumably against Abtisam Mohammed.

It really boils my blood that he is putting people telling. the truth about his sex in the same fucking category as the racist abuse that the woman muslim candidate who actually is active in the area suffers.

I don't have any pity for Eddie Izzard he knows exactly what he is doing and why he is doing it.

I'm confused about Izzard being "a gender-fluid transwoman". If you're gender fluid (or non binary) how can you be a woman? so confused

Rosie Duffield was the first Labour woman to speak up about gender ideology and is still, years later and when it's absolutely clear she was right, is still getting bashed for speaking the truth.

EI is a multi-millionaire white male so privileged that he doesn't think he needs to observe women's boundaries.

I know who I feel sympathy for and it's not EI.

I suspect it's so you can take male roles in films.

Not much call for 60-year-old 'girls' in movies. (Well some movies maybe).

I think EI is claiming to be ‘gender fluid’ as a cop out.

my point being that if you are gender fluid you don't identify as one gender or the other all the time. So being a transwoman contradicts that.

I saw a tweet the other day from someone who also had "non binary transwoman" and it confused me. However there are very few places you can ask without taking a (verbal) bashing and ending up on terf-blocker algorithms. And I don't identify as a terf so I'm against that

Taking "her" heels off?? I must be a man most of the time then

Me too @AryaStarkWolf if only I knew I was gender fluid all along….

Lol at Izzard the saviour of Sheffield

Is quite telling though isn't it? Everybody has to say that they're a woman as much as all the other women except for when they want to use their male advantage to claim their inheritance as a male heir or get the middle aged man acting roles. The US wants all women to push over for all these real transwomen women except for one they could fuck men and the country over by identifying out of signing up for the military draft......

Tell me how women aren't second class citizens again.............

Blatant Hypocrisy and women are supposed to accept it and be nice.

Hear, hear!

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The only thing I would suggest is that rather than calling it "gender dysphoria", we use the term "body dysmorphia". Gender is a meaningless term. It has no real definition - it is whatever someone decides it is to them, so they can hardly be uncomfortable with it.

Biology, however, is real. Many people are unhappy with their bodies in some way (not necessarily related to their sex). Distress related to body or appearance is better described as body dysmorphia.

Except, I suppose, that many of these activists are very happy with the sex of their bodies - they often don't want to change their genitals - they just want to change how other people regard them and want to force others to perceive them in a particular way and treat them in a way that effectively gives them power.

While they have every right to dress etc however they want, they don't have the right to make the rest of the world go along with their fantasies. And they certainly don't have the right to place others in danger to validate them.

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Ah, that's because you're trying to be logical.

If we all accept that gender is about wearing masculine or feminine clothes, then gender fluidity is all about what outfit you put on that day. Girl mode, boy mode. Taking heels on and off.

And being a transwoman is the same. So a man who wears clothes he thinks are normally worn by women. Girl mode. Heels.

But that doesn't give men access to women's spaces, or an opportunity for them to exceed at women's sport, or go to a female prison, etc. And it doesn't allow for any kind of external validation, either.

So then you will be told that it actually refers to sex, in order for things segregated by sex to be handed over.

And that's when the logic falls apart.