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Watching the film, you’re so ready to see Izzard slip into one of his wayward meanders of consciousness that for a while it seems odd that he stays on script. Judi has this amazing spark of vitality that traces all the way back to her youth.” She felt like a young woman, a young teenage girl almost. One time, Izzard recalls: “I was dancing with Judi to Ray Charles’s ‘What’d I Say’. The film was shot partly at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight (the first time any film crew had been allowed inside by English Heritage) and the cast would let their hair down in the evenings. Seeing her channel Victoria at close quarters was a daily masterclass. She has been a regular at his stage shows and has been in the habit, for reasons forgotten, of sending a banana to his dressing room each opening night, with “Good luck!” written on it. Izzard has done plenty of films before – he was in Ocean’s Twelve and Thirteen alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt and the rest – but nothing that has required quite this level of costume drama restraint. In Stephen Frears’s interpretation of the true story of Queen Victoria’s late-life friendship with an Indian servant, Victoria & Abdul, Izzard plays a full-bearded, tweed-suited Bertie (later Edward VII), reining in his comic instincts to inhabit the outrage and scheming of a son seeing his mother apparently making a fool of herself. The “anything” he has been doing most recently is to take on the challenge of acting opposite Judi Dench and Michael Gambon. “You think, if I can do something that hard, but positive – maybe I can do anything.” After that afternoon, he says, he not only felt he could face down the things that scared him, he went chasing after them: street performing, standup comedy, marathon running, political activism, improvising his stage show in different languages – all these things felt relatively easy after that original coming out as what he calls “transvestite or transgender”. The experience taught him some things: that there was power in confronting fear rather than avoiding it and that from then on he would never let other people define him. Speaking to the Guardian, Izzard said she did not mind being called “he/him” and said: “I am not telling anyone else to do anything.He spun around to give an answer, but before he got many words out the girls had run in the opposite direction. Izzard announced her adoption of “she” and “her” pronouns two years ago. Izzard said 98% of people she met in Sheffield wished her luck and that she received abuse only from a “vocal minority”. The vast majority of the world is now moving forwards.” She’s got to catch up with the rest of us. In response to Duffield’s comments, Izzard said: “She has got to join the 21st century. Rosie Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury in Kent, suggested that she would rather be arrested than refer to Izzard as “a woman”.

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Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, was criticised after he told Talk TV in October that he “would not follow him into the toilets” if Izzard came to parliament. Speaking to the Guardian in October, Izzard said she had suffered a “torrent of transphobic abuse” since announcing her candidacy.Ī gender-critical feminist took a photo of Izzard using the women’s toilet at a campaign event in September, tweeting it with the caption “coming out of the ‘ladies’ loo”. Izzard, 60, a comedian who identifies as a gender-fluid trans woman, congratulated Mohamed on her victory, tweeting: “She will make a fine MP and I look forward to campaigning with her in the months and years to come.” It has been very difficult to sift through this and continue to run positive campaigns. On Twitter, she said: “We have faced huge amounts of abuse, racism or transphobia throughout this campaign.

She will replace Paul Blomfield, who is standing down with a majority of 27,273.

Mohamed, a human rights lawyer, called her selection “the honour of my life”.