The Canadian highschool teacher who wears massive Z-cup prosthetic breasts at school has been placed on leave after Post photos revealed that somebody who resembles her rarely wears them outside work while dressed as a person, based on a report.
The Halton School District confirmed that Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher Kayla Lemieux was placed on paid leave Tuesday.
“While not currently on an lively project, the teacher stays employed with the (Halton District School Board),” spokesperson Heather Francey told the Toronto Sun.
Lemieux’s suspension comes after Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Halton Region MPPs Natalie Pierre, Stephen Crawford and Effie Triantafilopoulos rebuked the varsity board for having “abdicated its responsibility by failing to place the interests and safety of scholars first,” based on The Sun.
One mother named Lynn told the varsity board Wednesday that “types of identity and expression presented in the varsity environment [must] be scrutinized against the kid’s safeguarding practices.”
The board has remained largely quiet about Lemieux while parents have raged for months about her wearing the prosthetics in front of scholars.
Photos and video taken in class have shown her wearing tight clothing with large nipples protruding under the material of her top.
The controversy has sparked quite a few threats of violence against Lemieux and faculty officials.
Board of Education meetings have descended into chaos because it attempts to deal with the problem.
The saga gained international attention and got here to a head after The Post revealed last month that when outside school, Lemieux often ditches the breasts, wig and makeup and appears as a person, which sent shockwaves through the district.
Post photos showed a dressed-down Lemieux wearing men’s sweatpants, sneakers and a puffer vest — with no sign of her breasts, makeup, glasses or wig, a getup her neighbor said she wears “extremely infrequently.”
“These are real,” Lemieux said, adding that she couldn’t say who the person photographed was “because I don’t need to bring anyone else into this.”
“That is who I’m. That is how I look. You’ve been talking to people in my constructing but what they’re telling you is harsh and unfaithful. I’m at all times going out looking the way in which I’m.”
Lemieux told The Post that although she began undergoing hormone substitute therapy in 2021 and was “in transition,” she is “not a transgendered person” but was born “intersex.”
The teacher said her extra-large beasts are brought on by a condition called “gigantomastia,” but additionally admitted that she’s never been officially diagnosed.
Gigantomastia is “a rare condition that involves developing extremely large breasts because of excessive breast tissue growth,” based on the renowned Cleveland Clinic, which said there are only about 300 cases reported.
Outraged parents demanded that the Halton District School Board impose a dress code for teachers, which was initially rejected last 12 months because of concerns about violating Ontario’s Human Rights Code. In January, the varsity board agreed to develop a policy requiring that teachers maintain an “appropriate and skilled” appearance.
Lemieux told The Post that she “would follow the direction of the board on what they mandated” but denied that she wearing a provocative fashion.
“I don’t think there’s any problem with how I actually have dressed. It’s the private opinion of other people. I don’t think I actually have dressed unprofessionally,” she said.
