A video of a man wearing enormous prosthetic breasts with visible nipples under a tight top, complete with bicycle shorts, has gone viral on social media. That’s because the man in question is an Ontario high-school teacher who, at the time the images were captured, was teaching a class.
In a statement to parents, the school said: “As a school within the Halton District School Board (HDSB), Oakville Trafalgar High School recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression.”
For some men who identify as transgender, the point is to “pass” as a woman. But for others, the point is to be overtly sexual, outrageous, and conspicuous. If all “gender identit[ies] and gender expression[s]” are to be treated as equally valid, it is impossible to accommodate one and not the other.
What works better is to prohibit discrimination based on sex and to apply the same standards for everyone regarding wardrobe appropriateness. For reasons that ought to be obvious, no teacher or student — regardless of their sex or “gender identity” — should be permitted to show up to school looking like a blow-up sex doll.