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# Eddie Izzard defends JK Rowling
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/eddie-izzard-defends-jk-rowling/
- Published: 2021-01-03T15:15:49.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-03T14:31:56.000Z
- Description: 58-year-old comedian, Eddie Izzard, defended author JK Rowling, saying she doesn’t think Rowling is transphobic, despite ongoing accusations.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Queer Corner, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izzard pronouns, JK Rowling, JK Rowling transphobia, LGBTQ, Trans Rights, Transgender, UK News

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58-year-old comedian, **Eddie Izzard**, has said she doesn’t think **JK Rowling** transphobic, despite ongoing accusations. Izzard, who recently [requested](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/comedian-eddie-izzard-publicly-uses-she-her-pronouns/) to be referred to using she/her pronouns, told the [**Daily Telegraph**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) there needs to be a greater degree of solidarity between women and the trans community.: *“I don’t think JK Rowling is transphobic. I think we need to look at the things she has written about in her blog…Women have been through such hell over history. Trans people have been invisible, too.”*

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She continued: “*I hate the idea we are fighting between ourselves, but it’s not going to be sorted with the wave of a wand. I don’t have all the answers. If people disagree with me, fine – but why are we going through hell on this?”* In 2017, Izzard said: *“I am essentially transgender. I have boy mode and girl mode. I do feel I have boy genetics and girl genetics.”* However, in a recent TV appearance, she said: *“This is the first programme I’ve asked if I can be ‘she’ and ‘her’ – this is a little transition period…I just want to be based in girl mode from now on.”* She added: *“it feels very positive”* to be referred to by gender-affirming pronouns.

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Rowling has been accused of transphobia on multiple occasions, such as after the release of her 2020 novel **Troubled Blood**, which featured a male serial killer who wears ‘women’s clothing’ while he murders his victims. She also published an essay where she said she had *“deep concern about transgender activism”*, and continued to compare being trans to having a mental illness. She also said she could have transitioned if she was ‘given the option’ when she was younger, but suggested these feelings can be grown out of.