Under Labour party policy, an all-women shortlist can be imposed only when fewer than half of Labour MPs are women – which is not currently the case.Īsked whether she thought trans women should be allowed to run on an all-women shortlist, Izzard said: “I’m not sure. Changing my pronouns after a number of years being out just seemed to align more with how I was living my life. On the pronoun question, Izzard said: “I am not telling anyone else to do anything. Izzard said 98% of people she met in Sheffield wished her luck and that she received abuse from just a “vocal minority”. Izzard had the same message for the Conservative MP Lee Anderson, who earlier this week told Talk TV he “would not follow into the toilets” if she came to parliament, and even said Keir Starmer was “not sure what he’s all about”.Ġ0:43 Lee Anderson says he doesn't know if he would follow Eddie Izzard into toilet in parliament – video So come and join us in the 21st century.” The vast majority of the world is now moving forwards … The millennium has happened and we’re 22 years into it. She’s got to catch up with the rest of us. I’m not calling Eddie Izzard a woman.”Īsked for her message to Duffield, Izzard said: “She has got to join the 21st century. When asked about the possibility of misgendering someone becoming a hate crime, Duffield said: “Is that a serious thing? Is that coming to parliament anytime soon? I hope not because you might as well arrest me now. Rosie Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury, suggested recently that she would rather be arrested than refer to Izzard as “she”. Though Izzard announced two years ago that she preferred to be addressed with female pronouns and wanted to be “based in girl mode from now on”, she said “I don’t mind he/him”. She insists she is better placed to represent the constituency than a “supercharged local councillor” because “their activism has been local and my activism has been national and international”. She now lives in London, but has promised to move her “main residence” to the steel city if selected later this year to replace Paul Blomfield, who is standing down with a majority of 27,273. Izzard, a Labour party member since 1995, started an accounting degree in Sheffield in the 1980s but dropped out to pursue a career in comedy. The two local favourites are both city councillors: Abtisam Mohamed and Jayne Dunn. She and the former Channel 4 economics editor Paul Mason are the only candidates on the longlist to not live in Sheffield. In a short telephone interview with the Guardian on Thursday, Izzard said she had suffered a “torrent of transphobic abuse” since announcing her candidacy, including being photographed by a gender-critical feminist using the women’s toilet.
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