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Gender Euphoria!

This is the newest zine made from my webcomic!! It includes all the best strips from November 2014 to March 2015, plus many bonus and exclusive strips!

You can get it here!

I’ve grown so much as an artist this past year, as this zine shows, and it’s mostly because of all the love I get from you! <3 Thank you so much everyone for your support!

**To the people who pledge 5$ or more to my Patreon account, you’ll receive one in my next shipment! ;) **

People who know me in real life know that I crave books. For as long as I can remember, I was known to be that child who was always reading.

As you can imagine, I have many books at home. Like, a lot. So I thought I'd share with you some of my favorite ones that are gender- and sex-related. Feel free to share widely to spread awareness!

Today, here's a selection of books writen for parents and educators.

Transitions of the Heart (edited by Rachel Pepper) is a collection of short texts by mothers of trans and gender non-conforming children. It will make your heart melt.

Gender Born, Gender Made (Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D) is an essay about raising and working with trans and gender-creative youth. I find it really enlightning.

The Transgender Child (Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper ) is a powerful tool and handbook that thaught me many things. It is highly educational.

Chasing Rainbows - Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices (edited by F.J. Green and M. Friedman) is a radical book. It is by far one of my favorite collection of parenting essays, tackling subjects as diverse as gender-neutral parenting and transmen childbearing.

#transgender #trans #books

-Make a movie about an important figure of trans history -Don't even hire a trans person

-Say they don't want a trans woman to play the role because it would mean she has to get off hormones -Can make same actor look like Stephen Hawking

#eddie redmayne #elbegate

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You have to read it with a deep and calm documentary commentator’s voice.

I *love* the term protogay. I first read it in Diane Ehrensaft’s major work, “Gender Born, Gender Made”. It describes children that are viewed by adults and society at large to be potentially gay - gender non-conforming in general, that is. I like it because it pinpoints how we, through our eyes, sexualize behaviors that don’t have anything to do with sexual orientation.

It hits really close to home, as many of my hobbies and interests were often considered signs of a future sexuality by adults surrounding me as a child.

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Reasons why you are NOT hiring a cis actor to play a trans woman.

Yes, I’m looking at YOU, Eddie Redmayne.

(Note that there’s nothing wrong with men wearing dresses. It’s the opposite of a problem. Except they are not trans women.)

Books : assignedmale.etsy.com Patreon : www.patreon.com/sophielabelle

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Amendments introduced to the Senate Wednesday would exempt the transgender rights bill from public washrooms, locker rooms and women’s shelters.

So this is happening in Ottawa, Canada right now.

Bill C-279, which was supposed to include gender identity and gender expression as rights in our constitution, is being hijacked by the Conservatives to legalize discrimination towards trans people.

This makes me sick.

The Senate has passed an amendment to the transgender rights bill that would effectively bar transgender people from public washrooms. The Senate on Wednesday passed Bill C-279, which seeks to add gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act, with additional amendments. Transgender advocates say the bill is essential to protect transgender Canadians from discrimination.

But the bill has been stuck in the Senate after passing its second reading in the House almost two years ago.

The bill’s sponsor in the House, New Democrat MP Randall Garrison, said he believes the amendments are a stalling tactic to kick the bill back down to the Commons. With the 2015 election looming, any delay is likely to kill the bill.

“I think the amendments were designed to provide additional delay to defeat the bill,” he said.

Sen. Donald Plett, a Conservative member of the standing committee, proposed during the meeting on Wednesday that the legislation be amended to exclude federal “sex-specific” facilities like crisis facilities, washrooms, changing rooms and correctional facilities.

“This act will no longer allow biological males to identify as female and gain access to vulnerable persons,” he said during the meeting.

Throughout the bill’s debate in the Senate, Plett, who is a former president of the Conservative Party, has repeatedly opposed allowing transgender people to use the bathrooms that corresponds to their gender identity. “I have no problem with people that identify as women when they’re biological male in housing and employment. They need to be treated absolutely equally,” Plett said during committee on Oct. 2.

“The issue I have is that many elements of society are separated based on sex and not on gender — shelters, change rooms, bathrooms, even sports teams. They are not separated based on internal feelings but on sex, physiological and anatomical differences. Whether or not we like the fact that men and women are biologically different is irrelevant.”

Liberal Sen. Grant Mitchell, the Senate sponsor of the bill, said he’s wary of any changes that lessen the protection of transgender people in public washrooms or other public spaces.

“The very act that is designed to prohibit discrimination is being amended to allow discrimination,” he said during the meeting.

Plett has resisted criticisms that excluding transgender people is discriminatory, and instead has insisted it is a public safety issue. “Whether or not it is called ‘the bathroom bill,’ it allows for pedophiles to take advantage of legislation that we have in place,” he said Feb. 4, 2014 during a Senate debate, referring to the bill’s nickname.

Plett also proposed two other amendments, which Mitchell did not oppose. One would be to add “sex” to the list of protected identities under the Criminal Code, the other would be to remove the definition of gender identity.

Amanda Ryan, from the Ottawa transgender support organization Gender Mosaic, said any amendment that restricts transgender rights in public restrooms or locker rooms is “totally unpalatable.”

Gender Mosaic, along with other human rights organizations like Amnesty International, is part of the Trans Equality in Canada coalition. The coalition said there is no way it could support the bill if the amendment is passes. “We would put all our effort into having that amendment deleted (in the House),” Ryan said.

Dresses.

#trans #transgender #crossdress

A Short and Incomplete Story of Gendered Clothing

It's a (very) simplified story, but I thought you'd like to know it!

When I was a child, there was this very old picture of my father hanging in the living room. It depicted him wearing a long white dress. It always fascinated me.

This short story of how children’s clothes came to be gendered is made from facts taken from the book “Pink and Blue : Telling the boys from the girls in America” by Jo B. Paoletti.

I am not an historian, and this is intended to be accessible information, so I skipped many things along the way, like the introduction of pants for women or the “unisex” era of the 70’s. I made it simpler so it could be more palatable. I recommend reading Paoletti’s book for further information.

EDIT : I put Freud under the spotlight, but G. Stanley Hall also played a huge role in the propagation of this idea that children had to look like the parent of the same sex.

#gendered marketing #gendered clothing #ihatepsychoanalysis