“Why are you not allowing Eddie Izzard to be a trans woman as they identify?” Picking up on her insistence to describe Eddie as a man Nick asked her:
Neither Duffield or Anderson responded to requests for comment from CBC."Specifically in this case there were at least two other women on the shortlist that would like that position.” And Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, referred to Izzard using male pronouns during a recent interview, and suggested he wouldn't want to to be "following" the comedian "into the toilets."
Rosie Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury, recently said that if misgendering someone were a crime, she would rather be arrested than call Izzard a woman. Since Izzard announced her Labour candidacy, she has been on the receiving end of that rhetoric more than once. Home Office, a fact that trans rights advocates have attributed to an increase in anti-trans rhetoric. Hate crimes against transgender people have more than doubled over the last year, according to the U.K. over transgender rights, including inclusion in conversion therapy bans, the process for legal gender change, and access to gender-confirming health care for youth. "And I just think moderates quite often don't go in because it's so brutal, and I thought I should go in." Negative comments from MPsīut her candidacy comes at a time of high-profile debate in the U.K. "I do radical things with a moderate message," she said. She told CBC she wants to use her international profile to make Sheffield "brighter, bolder stronger on the map," and described herself as both "a radical and a moderate." So when an opportunity presented itself in her old stomping grounds this year, she jumped at the chance.Īccording to her campaign website, her priorities for the riding include creating good employment opportunities, improving education, funding public health care and pursuing climate justice. She tried to run for the Labour Party in 2019, she said, but a seat wasn't available. Izzard has been eyeing a political career for more than a decade. Izzard sits down in the Q studio at CBC in Toronto in 2021. Sheffield people from all walks of life just said, 'Go on, go for it, Eddie.'" And I found the people in the streets are very encouraging. "They've always been good with me, for me, and I've always tried to reciprocate that. "Sheffield supported me when I started my creative career, so I wanted to come back and support Sheffield," she said.
She first moved there decades ago to study accounting and financial management, but quickly dropped it in pursuit of drama and comedy. She credits local activists for working to improve the community while she toured the world doing stand-up in several languages, appearing in Hollywood movies, and running hundreds of marathons for charity.īut the South Yorkshire city is the place where Izzard got her start in the creative arts. Izzard admits that for most of her career, she hasn't called Sheffield home. She's one of six long-list candidates running for the position. Izzard - a veteran British comedian, actor and activist - is vying to become the Labour Party candidate for Sheffield Central in the U.K.'s next general election. Hopefully, in time, everyone will calm down." Not getting so much abuse about playing the piano," Izzard told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. That's still how she feels about it, as she comes under fire by politicians inside and outside her own party over her gender identity. When comedian Eddie Izzard first announced she was running for office in the U.K., she concluded her campaign launch video with an afterthought: "Oh yes, and I happen to be trans." As It Happens 6:30 Eddie Izzard has been waiting 37 years for people to 'calm down' about her gender
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