I ordinarily try to avoid doing back-to-back posts on this issue, but here you go.
(For much from me on this issue – see this page.)
I’m not going to post an image of the Canadian shop teacher. It’s gross. I have a couple of points to make – take and share, if you like:
First, if you didn’t believe that some of this transactivist movement is grounded in fetishism – do you get it now? I mean – wtf is this? You cannot get prosthetics of this type and size except through fetish sites – it’s not something available or desired – it goes without saying – to women who have, say, undergone mastectomies for breast cancer.
It’s a fetish.
And in case you haven’t made the connection in your own mind yet, let me help: this guy is living out his fetish with teenagers.
I don’t know about you, but I’d call that sexual abuse.
Note: I am not saying this is the root of all trans-related desires and actions, but, as I have said many times, it is at the root of quite a bit of it, especially among males.
Secondly, the response.
I’ve drilled down in this space time and time again about self-identification as a goal for this movement. This is where it takes you. This and men in women’s prisons, of course. This is why attempts to build replace “sex” with “gender” or insert “gender identity” or “gender expression” – all of which are based, in the activists’ toolkit, on nothing more than self-identification – into law and policy – must be resisted.
Meghan Murphy says it best at Feminist Current:
(She’s Canadian, this case is Canadian, so the references are of course to Canadian law and policy.)
Transgenderism, for most men, is not about the invented concept of “gender identity.” There is no such thing as having a “feminine” interior and a male exterior. One cannot be born with or acquire a “feminine” soul. In truth, what most men who now publicly identify as “transwomen” (or simply as “women”) have is a fetish and/or some form of mental illness.
While even many of those critical of the trans trend continue to treat transgenderism as a legitimate concept (that is to say, they believe and speak as though “trans” is a legitimate identity — as though some people in this world truly are the opposite sex “on the inside”), the reality is that, for most men, this is a sexual fetish. These adult “transwomen” are men who are turned on at the thought of themselves as “women,” as well as by moving about in public dressed as such. Part of this fetish is indeed about exhibitionism — being seen dressed “as women” in public.
….It is thanks to Bill C-16 and consequent policies and practices adopted across Canada, preventing “discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression,” that Kayla Lemieux has been entitled to parade his private sexual fetishes around in public — at work, in a classroom, at that.
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When Rebel News spoke to Curtis Ennis, the Director of Education for the Halton District School Board (who specifies “He/Him” pronouns in his Twitter bio), he told the reporter that the Board is “committed to supporting all of our teachers and staff and students in an environment that upholds their dignity, their gender identity, and their gender expression.”
….It is amazing to refer to “upholding dignity” in reference to a man who is embarrassing himself, the school, and his students, as though any of this is “dignified.” But what this all comes down to is institutions upholding the Ontario Human Rights Code, in keeping with Bill C-16, which amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. As a result, Lemieux could claim “discrimination” were he to be fired for displaying his “gender identity” at work.
This is why the least dignified scenario imaginable is being defended under the guise of upholding “dignity” and human rights…
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….the problem lies in having defended “gender identity” as a legal concept in the first place, and in insisting that “inclusivity” means accepting and celebrating any and every “identity” and “sexuality” claimed as part of the LGBTQ++ umbrella. It is not necessary to “accept” drag queens in the classroom, nor must we protect the “rights” of men who claim to be women in the public sphere. “Transgenderism” as a legitimate legal concept is the problem — once we say that men who claim to be women are indeed so and cannot be challenged with the truth, all is lost. We cannot protect kids or women if we go along with this charade.
The result is that men with fetishes now dictate who may tweet (and about what), when and where women may have safety and privacy (nowhere), who must be fired should they challenge the men’s identities, on what grounds women must compete in sport (unfair ones!), and what girls must accept at school.
The fact that we are having this conversation at all (and that Lemieux is being protected) is the result of Bill C-16, and due to progressives across the country having supported the notion that one could “identify” as the opposite sex, and must be protected, legally, on those grounds.
Kayla Lemieux is not a “she.” Stop with this nonsense. He is a ridiculous, entitled, inappropriate man with a fetish and anyone who cannot say so is a coward. Calling him “she” is not respectful, it is an insult to all females.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if a man stuffs a bra with a modest handful of tissues or hefts around a massive pair of silicon mammaries, the idea that such a costume is a sincere expression of womanly ‘gender identity’ is beyond insulting to women. Prosthetics such as those worn by the Oakville teacher make clear that many men who pretend to be women have drawn their beliefs about what makes a woman from pornography. It is notable that such men seldom seek to express their ‘gender identity’ by doing the myriad of mundane chores that still, in many households, fall to women. It is as if being on hand to pick the kids up from school when they are sick or remembering family birthdays don’t validate one’s sense of womanhood in quite the same way.
Ultimately, transgenderism is largely a male fetish that wears the clothes of a civil-rights campaign. Viral stories like that of the Canadian teacher are to be welcomed. They expose the mantra of ‘transwomen are women’ for the dangerous fantasy that it is.
If a girl (student) or woman (teacher) came to the school dressed like that shop teacher, they would be asked to leave. Girl would get dress coded, woman would be fired as unprofessional.
Double standard much?
Exactly.