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Eddie Izzard

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearin

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Eddie Izzard wanted to be seen and accepted as a woman, so she began dressing in traditionally feminine clothes to express that identity. However, since people continued to address her as "sir," she decided to try a different approach to change how others perceived her.

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