If you are Canadian you may not perhaps know of Kayla Lemieux, a Trans shop teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School near Toronto who, apparently, has received relatively little press here at home while the source of both outrage and hilarity in various media outlets around the world.
Born Male, now identifying as Female, Lemieux has been photographed wearing absurdly large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples as she carried out her teaching duties. I have no idea of her motivation and frankly don’t care, but am utterly convinced that an instructor’s gender issues have no place in the classroom and that Lemieux’s outrageous antics are both pathetically childish and an affront to her duties as a teacher.
In response to complaints from parents, Lemieux’s superiors defended her. On Wed., Sept. 21, the “conservative” Rebel News Network sent reps to a meeting of the Halton District School Board hoping to get an explanation for its stance. In response to their queries, trustee Margo Shuttleworth, apparently in charge of the proceedings, banged her gavel repeatedly and declared they were “out of order.”
The problem is, you see, when one’s Identity as the member of an “oppressed” minority [i.e., a transgender] becomes the defining criterion of a political ideology, apologists for that ideology feel compelled to defend everyone who satisfies that criterion, however absurd their beliefs or repulsive their behavior. Hence the Halton School Board’s reluctance to censure the antics of Kayla Lemieux.
But what is truly distressing is that while the Left loves to indict “conservatives” by citing fanatical fringe groups who have nothing in common with mainstream “conservatism,” it is not fringe groups who are responsible for the absurdity of the mainstream Left. The plastic-breasted fool cited above was defended by a duly appointed Canadian School Board, just as B.L.M. was supported by the mainstream American press in 2020, even as its antics led to several deaths and the destruction of over two billion dollars worth of property, both private and public.