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| place_birth = Colony of Aden [now Yemen] | | place_birth = Colony of Aden [now Yemen] | ||
| nationality = English | | nationality = English | ||
| pronouns = | | pronouns = [[she/her]]<ref name="pronouns2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6133/eddie-izzard-pronouns/|title=Eddie Izzard is now using 'she' and 'her' pronouns|date=2020-12-20|website=British Comedy Guide|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-12-20}}</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> | | 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> | * "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" /> | * "kind of gender fluid"<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> | ||
* "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> | * "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 | | occupation = comedian, actor, writer, activist | ||
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Izzard's stance is that the way she dresses is neither part of her performance nor a sexual fetish. She 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> She 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 her own genome sequenced.<ref name="Garrison" /><ref name="londonreal" /> | Izzard's stance is that the way she dresses is neither part of her performance nor a sexual fetish. She 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> She 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 her own genome sequenced.<ref name="Garrison" /><ref name="londonreal" /> | ||
In 2020 on the TV programme ''Portrait Artist of the Year'' she said she wanted to be "based in girl mode from now on" and referred to with she/her pronouns.<ref | In 2020 on the TV programme ''Portrait Artist of the Year'' she said she wanted to be "based in girl mode from now on" and referred to with she/her pronouns.<ref name="pronouns2020" /> | ||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||