Eddie Izzard attends the "Icons" exhibition press view in conjunction with Art Hound Gallery at Riverside Studios on 24 September, 2020. (Getty/ Nicky J Sims)
Comedian Eddie Izzard has sparked “collective gender euphoria” among her fans after publicly requesting to be referred to with “she” and “her” pronouns.
Izzard appeared on the most recent episode Sky Arts series
Portrait Artist of the Year as the artists’ subject, and all contestants referred to her throughout with she/her pronouns.
Although the 58-year-old has referred to herself as transgender since 2016, saying at the time: “I’ve got boy genetics and girl genetics.
“We get obsessed by it in humanity… If you look at a tiger, you go ‘ooh, tiger!’, we don’t go ‘girl tiger’ or ‘boy tiger’.