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# Eddie Izzard speaks about experience as a trans child
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/eddie-izzard-speaks-about-experience-as-a-trans-child/
- Published: 2021-02-03T17:17:45.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-03T13:33:58.000Z
- Description: 58-year-old comedian Eddie Izzard recently told Simon Thomas on the Life, Interrupted podcast that she knew she was trans as a young child.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Queer Corner, Eddie Izzard, LGBTQ, Trans Youth, Transgender, UK

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58-year-old comedian **Eddie Izzard** recently told **Simon Thomas** on the [*Life, Interrupted* podcast](https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42KrCd/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) that she knew she was trans as a young child. Izzard said she experienced bullying after wearing girls clothes which led her to realise her gender identity: *“I must have been four or five, and there was laughter, mocking. I remember thinking, ‘That sounds pretty good to me, I’d be quite happy to be a girl, what’s going on there?’”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/eddie-izzard-1.jpg)

She continued: *“Your biological body \[can give\] different signals as to how it is in the brain, but I do feel gender-fluid. I have got boy genetics and girl genetics, so I call it boy mode and girl mode. These may not be great phrases but I can’t think of better words. Man mode and woman mode doesn’t sound good so I’m going with those at the moment, but language can change over the years. I am gender-fluid, I do seem to be a mixture, but I’m now based in girl mode as a trans woman. And now that pronouns have come out, it feels like a promotion. I’m very happy with that.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/eddie-izzard-labour-1.jpg)

At the end of 2020, Izzard announced that she would like to be referred to by she/her pronouns from now on. She said in a TV appearance: *“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 also recently announced her [political bid](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/eddie-izzard-announces-political-bid/), saying she wants to become the UK’s first transgender MP: *“I wish to stand, I wish to be considered for a constituency, I would love to be elected and I would love to fight for Keir Starmer to be the next Prime Minister.”*