Trans comedian Eddie Izzard and Doctor Jekyll director Joe Stephenson speak to Yahoo UK about anti-trans sentiment in the public sphere and why we're at a "tipping point".
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00:00 Sadly, nowadays I find there's a lot of anti-trans sentiment in the media, in public as well,
00:06 and also in politicians.
00:09 I know why.
00:11 I know why it is.
00:13 It's a tipping point.
00:14 It's like before marriage equality happened, there was a lot of anti-gay and lesbian ideas
00:19 of couples being together.
00:20 Surely that's a bad thing.
00:21 And then we went through marriage equality and a lot of positive countries have done
00:24 it and people have said, "Oh, it's about love."
00:26 And all those arguments have sort of drifted away.
00:29 And some transphobic people are out there and they're going to get very loud right at
00:32 this moment.
00:33 And then that time will pass and we will go through that and we will go to a place where
00:37 it's live and let live and reach out and just say, "People exist.
00:41 Women's rights are human rights.
00:43 Trans rights are human rights."
00:44 End of story.
00:46 They shouldn't be fought against each other.
00:47 That's a right-wing ideology and they're trying to set people against people.
00:52 That's just not good.
00:53 In our film, I happen to play a trans character.
00:55 I happen to be a trans woman.
00:57 Doesn't actually affect the story.
00:58 It's the story is about dark power and how that could be inside someone in a mystical
01:03 story.
01:04 I think we'll get to a point where it is the same as it was in the '80s.
01:07 You had people being very confidently homophobic in public.
01:14 The same thing will happen in which in 10, 15 years, those people who are being so confidently
01:18 anti-trans today will be telling us that it was a 20, 23 years, a different time.
01:23 We didn't know any better and things.
01:24 And it will be up to us to decide whether we want to forgive them or not.
01:28 But I do think we'll get to that point.
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