A transgender instructor with prosthetic Z-cup breasts has lastly been suspended from her Canadian college after photos confirmed her in males’s clothes, proving she doesn’t put on the provocative apparel on a regular basis.
Kayla Lemieux, who claims the breasts are actual and the results of a medical situation, has come below fireplace for her tight outfits and large prosthetics, with mother and father beforehand claiming she ‘mocks ladies and the training expertise.’
The Halton District College Board (HDSB) confirmed she had been positioned on paid go away on Tuesday – although she continues to be paid for her function at Oakville Trafalgar Excessive College.
‘Whereas not at present on an lively project, the instructor stays employed with the HDSB,’ board spokesperson Heather Francey instructed the Toronto Sun.
It got here as mother and father of scholars lined as much as assault the schoolboard for its failure to impose a stricter costume code on Lemieux sooner.
Kayla Lemieux, the transgender highschool instructor in Canada, has been placed on paid go away after photos emerged of her dressed as a person proving she doesn’t put on the prosthetics on a regular basis
Final week an individual bearing a putting to Lemieux was seen out and about sporting males’s clothes – minus the prosthetics and wig. Lemieux is seen pictured in summer time 2022
One lady obtained a rapturous applause on Wednesday night as she instructed a board assembly it was crucial that ‘types of id and expression offered within the college setting be scrutinized towards the kid’s safeguarding practices.’
Lemieux has bizarrely insisted her breasts are pure and a results of a situation referred to as ‘gigantomastia’ – although she admits she has by no means obtained a proper medical prognosis.
She additionally claims to be intersex – that means she was born with each female and male intercourse organs – slightly than transgender.
However her account was referred to as into query this week as photos emerged showing to point out her dressed as a person – with out the big prosthetics and blonde wig.
The pictures had been the rationale for the eventual suspension, the Toronto Sun studies.
Till this week, the instructor had the total backing of her schoolboard who mentioned the problem was a ‘personnel matter.’
College students had been even threatened with suspension in the event that they had been caught taking photos or movies of the instructor.
In Wednesday’s board assembly, Lemieux was not talked about by title as mother and father, academics and board members voted on the varsity’s ‘professionalism’ insurance policies.
At a number of instances HDSB chair Margo Shuttleworth – who beforehand defended Lemieux as an ‘extremely effective teacher’ – needed to quieten noise and applause from mother and father, asking them to maintain their ‘feedback inside their head.’
One delegate, named Lynn, poured chilly water on the board’s earlier suggestion that telling Lemieux find out how to costume can be illegal.
Lemieux has made headlines a number of instances and started transitioning from male to feminine in 2021
College students shared movies of Lemieux in different faculties whereas she recovered from a foot harm, exhibiting her strolling with crutches
She cited a chunk from Ontario employment lawyer Howard Levitt who mentioned the schoolboard did have the ability to ban the instructor’s outrageous outfits however urged they had been too scared to take action.
‘Each collective settlement permits the employer to require its staff to decorate fairly and much more so to require {that a} instructor of younger individuals be a task mannequin for civility and professionalism,’ she instructed the assembly, citing Levitt.
Many others had been important of the ‘survey’ the varsity had put collectively about its professionalism insurance policies within the wake of the Lemieux row.
Mother and father had already expressed frustration that the survey made no point out of the varsity’s costume code.
A father mentioned on the Wednesday assembly: ‘The difficulty right here is that the board is required by regulation to solicit the views of the varsity’s councils and to the very best of my data the board has not completed so.
‘As an alternative it has circulated a survey and circulating a survey just isn’t the identical as soliciting the views of the varsity’s councils.’
Lemieux’s provocative apparel has been the topic of fierce political debate.
This week, Ontario’s Minister for Training Stephen Lecce instructed the Toronto Star: ‘Halton mother and father are rightfully outraged at what’s going down.
‘The welfare of children ought to prevail in our judgements at school boards and in authorities.’
And native MPPs Natalie, Pierre, Stephen Crawford and Ellie Triantafilopoulos signed a joint assertion claiming the board has ‘abdicated its accountability by failing to place the pursuits and security of scholars first.’
The assertion was revealed on Tuesday – the identical day Lemieux was formally suspended by the varsity.
Mother and father within the space have additionally arrange a GoFundMe web page to lift cash for a authorized fund to sue the school.
An analogous web page raised practically $10,000.
Lemieux beforehand instructed the New York Post: ‘I am not sporting prosthetic breasts. These are actual.
‘My situation is assessed as gigantomastia, which can be known as macromastia or breast hypertrophy.
However she famous how she had by no means obtained a proper medical prognosis.
Footage this week appeared to contradict Lemieux’s account as they confirmed a person bearing her resemblance wearing scruffy, grey clothes – and minus the prosthetics.
In November, Lemieux was pictured skydiving with a male porn star named Voodoo, whose actual title is Alexandre Boisvert
A neighbor recognized that particular person as being the Toronto instructor. They had been later seen driving out and in of the condo block and strolling on the sidewalk afterward.
‘He wears prosthetic breasts extraordinarily occasionally,’ the neighbor mentioned. ‘He places the breasts on to show, often when he goes for a stroll or when the cops go to.’
A regulation enforcement supply additionally says that officers – each uniformed and plainclothes – do common welfare checks at her condo.
The neighbor claims that often, Lemieux’s outfit is totally unmissable, having began going out in public as a lady in Might 2022.
The district beforehand claimed that interfering or criticizing the instructor would go towards the Ontario Human Rights Code.
‘The HDSB acknowledges the rights of scholars, employees, mother and father/guardians and group members to equitable therapy with out discrimination primarily based upon gender id and gender expression. Gender id and gender expression are protected grounds below the Ontario Human Rights Code,’ the board mentioned in an announcement.
Dailymail.com has reached out to HDSB for remark.
In November, Lemieux was pictured skydiving with a male porn star named Voodoo, whose actual title is Alexandre Boisvert.
Voodoo mentioned that he was solely targeted on leaping out of the airplane, and discussing his private emotions about transgender individuals with Lemieux can be counterproductive to their security.
He additionally pressured that Lemieux didn’t know who he was both.
Talking completely to DailyMail on the time, Voodoo mentioned: ‘I had no concept I used to be taking the controversial transgender college instructor till they confirmed as much as the drop zone.
‘I am not a fan of trans activism or Kayla’s conduct on the college however I am an expert and I do not discriminate.’
He added: ‘I will throw anybody out of a airplane. Plus, I regarded taking an enormous 230-pound particular person with big prosthetic beasts on a skydive as a problem. Most instructors wouldn’t even take them strictly on their measurement alone.’
