Editing Eddie Izzard

{{Infobox person
| picture=Eddie Izzard comes to Crouch End.jpg
| caption=Izzard at a Labour Party rally in 2015.
| date_birth=7 February 1962
| place_birth=Colony of Aden [now Yemen]
| nationality=English
| pronouns="If I am in boy mode then 'he' or girl mode 'she.'"<ref name="Nunn">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard works Wunderbar in Chicago |last=Nunn |first=Jerry |work=Windy City Times |date=2019-05-24 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Eddie-Izzard-works-Wunderbar-in-Chicago-/66141.html}}</ref>
| gender=* "[[transgender]] guy"<ref name="comingout2016">{{Cite web |title=Eddie on coming out as transgender - Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man |author=BBC Three |work=YouTube |date=14 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKUJIoeZpw}}</ref>
* "100% boy, plus extra girl"<ref name="Garrison">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs” |last=Garrison |first=Becky |work=Religion Dispatches |date=8 March 2013 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://religiondispatches.org/eddie-izzard-on-atheism-transgender-and-the-invisible-bloke-upstairs/}}</ref>
* "kind of gender fluid"<ref name="Nunn" />
* "I identify somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish."<ref name="comingout2016" /><ref name="Ruby">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard gives inspiring speech on being transgender as he takes a break from marathon to get his nails done |last=Ruby |first=Jennifer |work=Evening Standard |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/eddie-izzard-gives-inspiring-speech-on-being-transgender-as-he-takes-a-break-from-marathon-to-get-a3204136.html }}</ref>
| occupation=comedian, actor, writer, activist
| known_for=
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'''Edward John Izzard''' is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.

He had a starring role in the television series ''The Riches'' as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in ''Ocean's Twelve'', ''Ocean's Thirteen'', ''Mystery Men'', ''Shadow of the Vampire'', ''The Cat's Meow'', ''Across the Universe'', ''Valkyrie'', and ''Victoria & Abdul'' among other movies. He has also worked as a voice actor in ''The Wild'', ''Igor'', ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'', ''Cars 2'', ''The Lego Batman Movie'', ''Abominable'', and many others.

Izzard has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special Dress to Kill, in 2000. Izzard's website won the Yahoo People's Choice Award and earned the Webby Award.

In 2009, he completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running.

Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour Party activist for most of his adult life. He twice ran for a seat on Labour's National Executive Committee. When Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018, he took her place by default but was not re-elected in that summer's NEC elections.

Izzard describes himself as a "transgender guy"<ref name="comingout2016" /> having "boy genetics and girl genetics".<ref name="loose">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard on Why It Was Important for Him to Come Out |author=Loose Women |work=YouTube |date=30 June 2017 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rYR0n5zTQ}}</ref> In the past when terminology was different, Izzard identified as a [[transvestite]]<ref name="londonreal">{{Citation|title=DEALING WITH TRANSGENDER REACTIONS - Eddie Izzard on London Real|date=14 December 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPPaMazpf0|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref>, and has also called himself "a lesbian trapped in a man's body"<ref name="lifestory">{{Cite web |title=Comic Izzard promoting life story |author= |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2004 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3720385.stm}}</ref>, a "male lesbian", and "a complete boy plus half girl".<ref name="tough">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard: The tough transvestite who can take care of himself |author= |work=The Independent |date=23 May 2004 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/eddie-izzard-the-tough-transvestite-who-can-take-care-of-himself-61326.html}}</ref>

Izzard's stance is that the way he dresses is neither part of his performance nor a sexual fetish. He said "I don't call it [[drag]]; I don't even call it [[cross-dressing]]. It's just wearing a dress. ... It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself."<ref name="Visco">{{cite web|last=Visco|first=Gerry|title=Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eddie-izzard|work=Interview|accessdate=17 May 2020|date=19 May 2014}}</ref> He has expressed a personal conviction that being transgender is caused by genetics and that someday this will be scientifically proven, having gone so far as to have his own genome sequenced.<ref name="Garrison" /><ref name="londonreal" />

==Quotes==
{{quote|I think when [[LGBT]] gets really boring then we've made it, because it shouldn't be, “You're gay? Oh my god! You're transgender? Oh my god!” It should just be, “You're LGBT? Fine. Are you any good at what you do—accounting, photography, playing the banjo? How are you at that?” Our [[Sexual or romantic orientations|sexuality]] should be a thing that's there, but not the front signpost.<ref name="Visco" />}}


{{quote| I have boy mode and girl mode. I am kind of [[gender fluid]]. I want to express both sides of myself, which has always been there. I am a [[tomboy]] and tomgirl kind of person.<ref name="Nunn" />}}


{{quote|If you look at a tiger, you go "ooh tiger", you don't go "a boy tiger or girl tiger?". We are obsessed by the genders because we grow up in one gender or another. But no other animal is obsessed by our gender. They don't give a monkey's about our gender. [...] How you self-identify, who you fancy, matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence?<ref name="comingout2016" />}}

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