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Eddie Izzard: 'I'm just trying to create a space for myself'

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reported that the standup comic/actor/campaigner/endurance runner had adopted the pronouns “she” and “her” and wanted to be “based in girl mode” from now on.

Well, it hardly came out of the blue, she says today. Izzard had spent the past 35 years building up to it, and when she did finally make the announcement it happened by chance.A few months earlier, Izzard had been a guest on the Sky Arts series Portrait Artist Of the Year, and was asked, for the first time, which pronouns she preferred.

She replied “she and her” and never gave it another thought. By the time the programme was broadcast, Izzard had forgotten about the conversation.

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