TRANSGENDEREddie Izzard is determined to ensure that Labour lose the next election - Picks a fight with JKR whilst looking like a well-used blow-up doll.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is very true. Waaaay back in the late 80s and early 90s, when he was beginning to hit big, he was crossdressing on stage in the UK and no one cared - I suspect because he was funny and we had had the whole gender-bending trend of the 80s with Annie Lennox, Julian Clary and Boy George (and others) and it wasn’t particularly shocking by the time Izzard came around.

Of course, Izzard’s autobiography reveals that around the time he was gaining fame, he was also harassing thirteen year old girls in the Ladies toilets in London (and claiming that they were bullying him).

The interesting thing is that when he started to get work in the US, he put on male clothes and was fine. I ran into him on the street in New York in 2010 and he was dressed like a dude with no make up or anything. He then went on Rogan and talked about how he could switch between “boy mode” and “girl mode”.

He’s essentially a fetishist cross dresser who no longer gets the thrill he used to and now needs to force other people to join in with his fetish and transgender lunacy just happened to come along and he jumped on the bandwagon.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I had quite respected his "they're not women's clothes, they're my clothes" response when questioned on his clothing choices. If a man wants to wear more feminine clothes, go for it. And it's not all that unusual for entertainers. Even a lot of the, still very masculine, "hair band" musicians of the eighties had long hair and wore eye liner.

Then it turned out he was really a fetishist.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then it turned out he was really a fetishist

To be fair, all transvestites are and he called himself alternatively an “executive transvestite” and an “action transvestite”, he never hid that he had an attraction to women’s clothes (probably due to his mother’s death when he was young, according to a TV show he did visiting his boyhood homes), it was never just about pushing fashion boundaries or breaking down barriers in the way that the stylists for bands used it.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess I just knew of transvestites as men who liked to wear women's clothing but I didn't really get that it was a sexual fetish. Which is actually very naive as when I was a kid, the local transvestite went through a phase of wearing a wig and make-up and not much else and jumping out into his garden and wanking whenever kids walked past without an adult. I had no real idea what I was seeing when he did it when I walked past one morning but as an adult it's very creepy considering that kind of behaviour usually escalates.