The province's education minister having to ask for a professional review of teacher dress codes. A viral social media post with this picture showed a teacher wearing prosthetic breasts - of a size beyond anything we've known before.
If I were a student what would I do? This looks some kind of gender presentation issue to me.
You can imagine that there have been numerous complaints and protests and that the Ontario Department of Education Minister has to figure things out.
It turns out that the teacher is transgender. Kayla Lemieux, (an exemplary teacher by all accounts), identified as male up until recently. According to reports, Lemieux transitioned over the summer, and now identifies as female. This year, she arrived at school wearing the aforementioned prosthetic, which one commentator described as “effectively a fetish outfit,” under a tight-fitting, form-revealing top.
I find this curious that it is being named an "attire" problem. There's nothing wrong with the shirt to me - it is what is under it. What if a female to male transgender starting wearing a giant penis in tight pants to work. There's another scenario that is a challenge.
No journalists so far have pointed this out. No one wants to have to mention transgender issues. I guess "attire" is also a code word for transgender body image presentation.
I head off to a scientific site to give me the transgender 101 information.
"Often, as people are in the process of figuring out what feels most comfortable for themselves, they may experiment with styles and looks. They may later relax into more comfortable clothes, or clothes that reflect their own personal sense of style, rather than basing their choices on rigid cultural norms." This from ovc.ojp.gov on transgender presentation. "Body image can play a role in how people express their gender. Transgender people generally have an even more uncomfortable or negative relationship with their bodies than non-transgender people... Some create a literal armor to hide or alter their bodies or to create a different bodily contour: - Some FTMs (or other people on the trans-masculine spectrum)—
- Bind their chests.
- Wear baggy or multiple layers of clothing to help flatten the appearance of their chest.
- Wear self-made or store-bought penile prosthetics.
- Use prosthetics to allow them to urinate while standing.
- Slouch or intentionally gain weight to add mass to their midsection, altering their feminine contour.
- Some MTFs (or other people on the trans-feminine spectrum)—
- Use breast or hip forms to create a more feminine contour.
- "Gaff" or "tuck" (i.e., pull back their genitals to create a smoother line).
- Wear wigs.
- Dress in a highly stereotypical feminine way to create an outward appearance of undeniable femaleness. "
So here we are - right in the middle of one transgender teacher's body image crisis. News of the day: voting machines vs transgender teacher body image crises. Vote!
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