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Sophie Labelle

@assignedmale.bsky.social

The first openly French-Canadian author to be banned in Texas. 🏳️‍⚧️ Patreon : www.patreon.com/assignedmale Tipjar : www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fun and nostalgia

4 frame comic. in the first frame, there's a eery Tim Hortons facade under stormy clouds. in the subsequent three frames, we see several donuts and drinks in the colours of Harry Potter. The text reads:

as one of the largest annual
pride festivals in the world kicks
off in montreal, tim hortons,
iconic canadian coffee and
donut shops chain, just announced
the upcoming launch of a new
harry potter themed menu.
many lgbt+ orgs have since
called for a boycott, considering
how harry potter's author, who
is known for her holocaust
denialism and her anti-human
rights stances, has been using
her wealth to erase trans
people from public life.
in a statement, tim hortons
said that "the promotion was
intended to bring a sense of fun
and nostalgia to customers
rather than make a political
statement."
while anti-lgbt+
hate is on the rise, deciding
to funnel more money to one
of the biggest opponents to
equality and diversity on the
planet is nothing but a
political statement.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

A dark day for human rights.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

In the past, I've collaborated with various chapters of Amnesty International to create resources and give talks in different countries. Today, following their "apology" to JKR for shedding light on transphobic human rights violations in the UK, I publicly distanciate myself from that organization.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 6d ago

Aw baby

4 frame comic. a mother is siding on the side of a bed where a child with short hair is under blanket. they say : mamma, I can't sleep. what if I'm peer-pressured into getting rapid onset gender dysphoria in my dreams? The mother says : aw baby. If you get rapid onset gender dysphoria again, we'll make sure to bully it out of you like we did last time. The child replies: and then what? she says: and then, it'll come back to haunt you every few nights until you come to terms with the fact that we'd rather make up a fake disease than face our own biases and transphobia. goodnight!
the mother pulls the blanket and boops the child's nose. The child replies: Teehee! Goodnight.
The bedroom is dark but we only see the outline of the child's horrified eyes.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 7d ago

A ''new thing''.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last wk.

It's already the non-permanent solution.

four frame comic. An older man says to Stephie : Kids shouldn't make permanent decisions about their bodies. we must ban puberty blockers! She replies, through three panels : puberty blockers are meant to be non-permanent. They are used as a compromise because people won't trust trans teens to start hormones at the same time as their non-trans peers. Banning access to blockers not only takes that pause away from trans people, it forces them to watch their body change in a direction that we know will cause them pain and distress. It's pure cruelty. The only thing that is a permanent decision here is forcing trans teens to go through a puberty they don't wwant and might regret for the rest of their life. the man looks horrified.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last wk.

I wish it worked

4 frame comic. an adult in a brown sweater tells Stephie : you're calling people transphobic to silence them! She replies, over three frames : It's funny you say that because in my experience, literally no transphobe in existence has-- EVER -- shut up.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok but what if it's a phase?

poster of the comic character Stephie in a black dress walking. She says : waiting until a person expresses unbearable pain or intense suffering before letting them transition isn't "just making sure"... it's torture.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2w ago

It was never not our turn.

4 frame comic. An older man says to Stephie, in a yellow shirt : yeah, it's worrying what they're doing to trans people. It's like what they were doing to gay people in the eighties. Seems like it's your turn! Stephie replies, over the following three panel: w... we have been here the whole time, Harold. Do you think that the eighties' queerphobes saw trans people and were like ''nah, these people are fine''? do you think nazis who were ordered to round up queer men saw trans women and thought ''not them, trans women are women uwu''? people only think that transphobia is a new thing because it was so prevalent that they couldn't see our humanity. but it was never not our turn, Harold.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3w ago

This cruelty too shall end..

4 frame comic with narrative text, showing 1: police in riot gears, 2: tear gas engulfing a street with the silhouette of a person standing in the middle, 3: a big gathering seen from the sky; 4: a sunset over los angeles. Text reads : It's utterly ipossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. The Diary of Anne Frank, 15 July 1944. Throughout the text, the letters F, U, C, K, I, C, and E are highlighted in red.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'd be upset.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4w ago

Agree to disagree

4 frame comic. A guy with a neckbeard says to Sophie, the author: we shouldn't allow kids to be trans because 80% end up detransitioning. She replies: that number is from Kenneth Zucker's study from 30 years ago, in which he claimed to have ''curedää some gender non+conforming kids of gender dysphoria with ''reparative therapy'' - a form of torture. Half of them never even expressed gender dysphoria! The researcher's clinic was eventually shut down after he was revealed as a fraud, and his methods recognized as inhumane and unethical. His results were never reproduced. Actual, recent studies consistently estimate detransition rates to be between 1 and 2%. The man replies : OK well I got my studies, you got yours. agree to disagree.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Imagine the AUDACITY of someone WORKING while TRANS 😱

4 frame comic. in the first frame, a woman and a TERF are standing side by side, the woman with her arms crossed and the TERF looking upset, with a Adult Human Female shirt. she says : How am I supposed to work while a trans-identified coworker shoves his autogynephilic fetish in my face and mocks my sacred womanhood?! in the second frame, she's in an office, still upset, while a woman with a suit tells her : I'm sorry, we can't keep you on the team. you're fired. the TERF says : is it because of my protected gender critical beliefs that biology is real? the third and fourth frames show the woman in a suit saying : what? oh, not at all. No it's because you're a horrible person who has let hate rot her heart to the core.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Is it a real privilege if it doesn't help you win at Mario Kart?

Frank and Stephie are playing videogames on a purple couch. Frank asks her : so if you're trans, what am I, again? she replies : Cisgender, or cis. it means that your gender is the one you were assigned at birth. he says : isn't that a bit complicated? why not simply say that I'm normal? she replies : not naming being ''non-trans'' makes it impossible to put emphasis on the fact that the gender assignation process affects everyone, trans or not. You only feel like it's normal because you never questioned your gender. gender identity may seem like a useless concept when the whole world validates who you are. that's what's called a cis privilege. He says : it's not a real privilege if it doesn't help me win at Mario Kart.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Dear readers! Hear my tale of woe. I spent a few days in the city after being invited to speak for Pride, and I was driving home this morning, some 400km North, in time for my husband's birthday tomorrow, when my car broke down on the highway, in the middle of nowhere.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Some fan favourite shirt designs I made for sophielabelle.dashery.com (Teepublic) were of opossums and unicorns reminding people that "Stonewall was a riot". The Stonewall Inn has filed intellectual property claim against them.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Who would want to date a transphobe anyway?

two frame comic titled Saying you wouldn't date a trans person makes you a transphobe. first frame reads ''what it means'' and shows Stephie saying: Trans people have all types of bodies and genitalia. it's not a preference, it's stigmatisation and stereotyping. second frame reads ''what it doesn't mean'' and shows Stephie angrily pointing and saying : date a trans person this instant, bigot!

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

I will be joining this incredible panel of authors for Helsinki Pride tomorrow at Oodi! Don't miss it 👀

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Children's lives are more gendered today than ever before in history.

4 frame comic. the first frame shows a man with a grey and white beard, G. Stanley Hall. The second shows a woman wearing a bonnet and sighing holding two babies. the third frame shows a boy and a very similar looking man, both dressed with the same suit and bowler hat. the last frame shows G. Stanley Hall again, looking at two alleys of toys, one pink and one blue, and saying ''nice''. Text reads :
People didn't think much about young boys wearing dresses until prominent psychologists such as G Stanley Hall threw early childhood under scrutiny. Under their developmental paradigms, queerness and transness suddenly became treatable consequences of parental mistakes (more often than not mother's mistakes, given the obsession with effeminacy and trans-femininity.) Building on the work of Hall, the early 20th century saw an evergrowing interest in making sure boys identified with their father and girls with their mother. that coincides with the moment pink and blue started being used as codes for girls and boys. The fact that the lives of today's children are more gendered than ever before in human history is a testament to queerphobia and transmisogyny.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it's a title that you earn.

Drawing of a platypus diving underwater with a fanny pack and a rainbow shirt. it says : Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it's a title that you earn. Let your axctions speak for themselves!

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Let trans kids play sports (if they want to).

drawing of a young person wearing overall shorts and playing switch on an armchair, sitting very comfortably. text says Let trans kids play sports (if they want to). the person says "UGH"

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trans people exist, deal with it.

comic strip. Stephie and Frank are walking on the sidewalk. Frank says: my parents are against transgenderism. Stephie replies: transness. for or against? snow: for or against? the succession of seasons: for or against? the earth's revolution around the sun : for or against? Frank yells : what's your point?! she replies : being against the existence of an observable aspect of life won't make it cease to exist.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Girl's umbrella

comic that shows Frank and Stephie. Frank opens the door and says : ugh it started raining. Stephie : you can borrow my umbrella. (the umbrella is pink with cat ears and whiskers). Frank : that's a girl's umbrella. Stephie : well that's perfect, since it's girl's rain. Frank : that's not a thing. rain doesn't have a gender. Stephie : neither do umbrellas. Frank looks at Stephie suspiciously. Stephie : ooooh! objects don't have a gender. mind = blown! Frank: I'll... I'll take the umbrella.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Naturally and healthily.

four frame comic. first frame shows someone with a ''adult human female'' shirt saying, panicking : we need to act to ban trans care and make sure that children develop naturally and healthily! second frame shows Stephie eating a burger, saying : so you're gonna do something against ultra-processed foods and additives? against rampant child malnutrition?
third frame shows her lying on the ice with a hockey outfit. she says : will you ban ballet classes, since they alter children's muscles and limbs forever? or contact sports, like hockey or football, for giving them lifelong head traumas and concussions?
fourth frame shows her staring at the camera and says: or is hunting down a handful of trans kids who just want to live their life as themselves and participate in society more urgent than all this?

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wanna bet?

3 frame comic. Ciel, their father and their brother are at a store. Ciel says : Dad, I need new lip gloss. Their brother says : Can I get one too? some man with a shopping cart and a shirt that says "NPC" approaches them and says : boys don't wear lip gloss. you two won't get girls that way. Ciel says : you wanna bet? Their dad says : kids, we're getting all the lipgloss. Their brother says : I'll wear it until strict gender roles are nothing but a distant memory.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Believe trans youth.

poster of the character from Assigned Male comics Stephie, with her arms crossed, who says : The longest and most extensive study on the matter (pagefoot note : the Lancet Journal of child and adolescent health, oct. 20th 2022) recently found that out of 720 trans teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade ago, 98% were still continuing their treatment today. Desistance and detransition myths are lies designed to create a moral panic and a transphobic backlash. believe trans youth.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Facts.

Four frame comics. Every frame shows a crowd holding rainbow and trans flags, and features one sign. In the first, it reads : If you aren't willing to accept a trans or queer child, don't have kids. In the second : HRT is older than : Viagra, Lasik, heart transplant. Stop calling it "experimental." The third : More people regret getting a Harry Potter tattoo than gender-affirming care. The fourth : If gender is biological, why does it need a police state to enforce it?

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Time for some drama.

4 frame comic. Stephie is sitting on a couch, looking at her phone. she thinks to herself : alright, the baby is sleeping, my friend is gone, nothing is happening on the internet... this is so calm. so peaceful. Time for some drama. In the last frame, we see her typing into her phone : if you think trans kids are too young to know their gender, then put all kids on puberty blockers

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

oh but it does

4 frame comic. a different adult is saying something in each frame, and Stephie replies to each of them. The first says : I just don't want my children to learn about trans people. it doesn't make a transphobe. Stephie replies : actually, it does! the second says : men cannot be women. it's simple biology. saying this doesn't mean I'm a transphobe. Stephie says : oh, but it does! the third says : I'm fine with trans people, but I don't think kids should be allowed to transition. does that make me the villain? Stephie says : it most certainly does! The last one says : trans people shouldn't be allowed to teach children. it's just common sense. that doesn't make me a tran- Stephie, up close, interrupts him: guess what!!

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm heartbroken. Persepolis had a huge influence on me as a teenager. I've been thinking about her a lot lately.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

The French-Iranian artist and film director 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.

lemonde.fr