LILLEY: Halton teacher with huge fake breasts may just be punking us after all

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Is Kayla Lemieux, the controversial shop teacher in Halton, just punking us all?

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For those not following, Lemieux is the teacher who since last September has been described as a transwoman wearing large fake breasts in the classroom.

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Now, after a New York Post story claiming to show Lemieux out in public dressed as a man, the teacher claims none of this is true.

Lemieux is saying the Post story is false, that the photo of the man is someone else. Lemieux also now claims that the breasts – which weren’t there before the new school year in September – are real and that the proper term is intersex, not trans.

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Whereas trans means someone who was born one gender but who identifies and is transitioning, or has transitioned, to another, intersex can mean a variety of things.

One definition from the Cleveland Clinic is that people who are intersex “have reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit into an exclusively male or female (binary) sex classification.”

This latest claim by Lemieux is stretching belief and makes the ongoing claim by many that Lemieux is setting everyone up for a long troll all the more credible.

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Lemieux has been in the news since last September and has turned down multiple requests for comment from the Sun and other Canadian media outlets. The Toronto Star reported that Lemieux asked for money in exchange for an interview recently.

Not once though has Lemieux requested that the record be corrected to state the giant fake breasts being worn to class were real or that they were intersex rather than trans.

Now, days after the New York Post published photos they said were Lemieux out in public, dressed as a man, Lemieux was giving interviews trying to the record straight so to speak.

“My condition is classified as gigantomastia, which can also be referred to as macromastia or breast hypertrophy,” Lemieux told the Post.

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“The diagnosis is based on verbal discussions I have had with my doctor,” Lemieux told the Sun’s Joe Warmington in an email last weekend. “I never requested a note or letter of these findings. I don’t have anything I can give you.”

Lemieux told Warmington it was offensive to even ask for proof of a diagnosis of this exceedingly rare condition.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, there have only ever been a few hundred cases of gigantomastia diagnosed, but Lemieux wants you to believe that they are one such case without proof. Sounds like a case of Dr. Google dreaming up a diagnosis to support what is already happening, a teacher wearing huge, inappropriate, fake breasts to class.

The Halton District School Board has handled this issue horribly from the start, initially calling it a human rights issue and chiding parents and students with concerns. They’ve recently agreed to a dress code they once called a human rights violation.

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“Parents are rightfully outraged by the board’s mismanagement,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce told the Sun on Wednesday. “It’s clear that in Halton, the senior management of the school board has failed families and the kids themselves.”

Beyond taking over the school board to force a resolution to this issue, it’s not clear what Lecce or the Ford government can do other than keep up public pressure.

“The school board needs to wake up and recognize they have the responsibility to protect the interests of children and put them first,” Lecce said.

Students have been put last in all of this by the board and by Lemieux and they deserve better.

We still don’t have the full story here, but it doesn’t feel like Lemieux is telling the truth.

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