#it just drives me insane to see bigots making sweeping judgments about the veracity of her gender identity without knowing anything

[awaywithjay]

Wee woo wee woo HELLO EVERYONE the Suzy Eddie Izzard interview from 2004 with super intimate questions about sex and gender is back from several years of copyright restrictions!!!!!!

I have been thinking about this interview for YEARS since it got restricted and wondering if I was remembering it correctly, but yes, this IS an interview from 2004 where Eddie says things like how she's "always wanted to have boobs, but you know I look kinda blokey" and how she would prefer being a woman when having sex (because that's what the question was about).

It's clear that the interviewer, while open-minded and friendly (and shameless about invasive questions), comes at the transvestite thing from a sex and/or kink angle, and that's why her questions centre on sex and genitalia. But Suzy's answers are so clearly, indisputably trans. To me. And it's just so important to me because even though we as fans (and observant queer non-fans) can and have seen that Suzy being a 'transvestite' has been about her gender identity from the very start - a lot of people still think, or insist, that she has recently changed the way she thinks and talks about herself (from 'executive transvestite' or 'male tomboy' to transgender). I think she has always thought of herself this way, maybe just without feeling like she was allowed to, like it was possible. In this interview, from twenty years ago, she says "I'm exploring quite how to, how to be transgender, how to express myself."

Just, watch it.