A Canadian school board has defended a trans teacher after students and parents complained about her oversized prosthetic bust
A transgender teacher in Canada has gone viral on social media after students filmed her during class, revealing her wearing oversized fake breasts under tight clothing. The school board has defended the teacher from angry parents, arguing that she is free to express her gender identity however she sees fit.
Kayla Lemieux, who identified as Steven Hanna earlier this year, is a manufacturing technology teacher at Oakville-Trafalgar High School in Ontario, Canada. After her transition she started to draw complaints from students and parents over her appearance as she wore fake synthetic breasts that almost completely cover her entire torso and abdomen.
Apparently in today's woodworking (aka weirdwoking) class at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Canada, pupils will learn how to make chapel hat pegs, a speciality of their trans teacher, Kayla Lemieux…… pic.twitter.com/o9cFoMjnUK
— James Moran #ItsHappening 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@Jpjm1964) September 19, 2022
The Heltan district school board said that it respected Lemieux’s right to express her gender identity, and that it would not be discussing the issue any further as it was a “personal matter.”
It added that criticizing the teacher’s appearance or interfering with her “expression of her gender identity” would be a violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code.