On closer inspection this is a very odd bit of click bait.
It gives the impression that Izzard has demanded that he/she (it’s really beyond me all this stuff) be called ‘she’ and ‘a woman’. In fact Eddie has explicitly said she/he doesn’t care what other people call him,/her (****ing hell this is tedious), so no one is asking Rosie Duffield or Paul Embrey to use any particular pronoun in reference to Izzard.
So what is this odd tweet about? It seems that Duffield might be upset that Izzard, who is interested in standing for Parliament for Labour, might get on an all woman shortlist. Duffield has said that she’ll leave the party if this happens. This would indeed be a very challenging situation. But Labour has ceased to have all women shortlists, the policy was binned in March. More than half of Labour MPs are women (real biological women as far as I can tell).
Looks like a manufactured bit of rubbish to wind up the socially conservative/ Blue Labour element. It’s a real shame, because Duffield has been the subject of genuine disgraceful abuse from extreme trans rights idiots, and Labour has a very confused stance on all this stuff, because they don’t know if they are a centre-left ersatz socialist party or a coalition of identity politicians. The curse of the mildly left wing, ‘let’s not upset anyone’ tendency, I suppose, although in terms of Labour the more militant elements seem to have stirred this up, presumably with the mistaken idea that they can control these diverse factions in some Trojan horse power bid post Corbyn.
Going to be interesting when/if this lot get to form a government.
