In a recent interview for Sky News, 59-year-old comedian and trans advocate Eddie Izzard discussed her latest film project and reflected on how far LGBTQ+ equality has progressed.
Izzard, who announced in December 2020 that she would like to be referred to by she/her pronouns from now on, is starring in period thriller Six Minutes To Midnight, set in 1939 before the onset of WWII.Izzard in Six Minutes To MidnightIzzard said she has been open about her gender identity since 1985, but added: “If we go back to the 1930s, if I’d been in Nazi Germany, I would have been murdered for saying that I was trans…Gay people were put in concentration camps.