Canadian Politics Today

It's also one person.

Of course it is.   They need to deal with it, though and I think people are correct as to why they are not. 

A woman who dresses inappropriately for the job needs to be told so.  Prosthetics... ok but be reasonable. 

Except that the school board says that they can't "deal with it".  They contend that Ontario law protects this person's right to "express their gender identity" in this manner.

Perhaps they are simply too wokebrained to see any issue with the way this person is acting.  Perhaps they are afraid that if they take any action they'll end up in front of a Human Rights Tribunal writing a big cheque to this person.

Whatever the case, clearly the school board is not able to "deal with it" on their own. Their only action, so far, has been to draft a "safety plan" for this teacher. The Ontario education minister has requested that the college of teachers review their policies.

It may be just one person, but these edge cases help illustrate the deficiencies in legislation. If the world were composed entirely of reasonable and well-behaved people, we would hardly need laws at all.  But inevitably circumstances arise that the people who drafted the legislation perhaps didn't anticipate, conflicting rights or priorities that they might not have identified at the time, changing social views, this sort of thing. In the case of this Ontario teacher, or the Wax My Balls Guy of a few years back, I'd suggest that perhaps people put too much stock in the notion that people wouldn't act in bad faith.  "That would never happen", as the activists like to say.

We also get to measure the school board's words against their actions. Their words express their commitment to "a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and welcoming learning and working environment for all students and staff."  Their actions, however, make clear that the only person they consider a priority is the fetish-gear clad teacher.


This teacher is performing a degrading caricature of women that some people have compared to blackface. I think it's more akin to the dehumanizing portrayals of the Japanese in WW2 propaganda posters. I think that if this teacher were performing such a disgusting portrayal of a racial or ethnic or religious group, he would be at the very least reprimanded and sent home, and quite likely face professional discipline or be fired. It would probably be discussed as a hate incident.  But because women are the target of this abuse, we're told we just have to be considerate of this person's feelings and his right to express his gender feelings.  In fact we risk being accused of spreading hate ourselves in speaking out against this debacle.


 -k