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Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour Party activist for most of her adult life. She twice ran for a seat on Labour's National Executive Committee. When Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018, she took her place by default but was not re-elected in that summer's NEC elections. | Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour Party activist for most of her adult life. She twice ran for a seat on Labour's National Executive Committee. When Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018, she took her place by default but was not re-elected in that summer's NEC elections. | ||
Izzard describes herself 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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214192740/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rYR0n5zTQ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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 | Izzard describes herself 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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214192740/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rYR0n5zTQ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407191907/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPPaMazpf0|url-status=bot: unknown}} on 17 July 2023</ref>, and has also called herself "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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404165102/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3720385.stm |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405021806/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/eddie-izzard-the-tough-transvestite-who-can-take-care-of-himself-61326.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705120612/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eddie-izzard|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705120612/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eddie-izzard|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</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" /> | ||