@rareboy I notice you described the subject of the article as "this transgender person", thereby avoiding the two pronouns most the English speakers use to describe humans, that is, he or she. Why?
I referred to Lemieux jokingly as a "wannabe woman" because he has presented himself as a joke, a clown of sorts. How else to explain the choices he has made in the way he presents himself to the world and, most importantly in this context, his school and classroom. The radical transgender lobby is fond of bringing up the mental health of transgender children, but imagine the horror and dread a transgender child in Lemieux's classroom would feel witnessing this sideshow.
I would not have referred to the writer and adventurer Jan Morris (born James, and whose works I have read with great interest and pleasure) in this manner, nor would I do so in referring to the vast majority of transgender persons who simply want to get on with their lives.
I'd appreciate citations of examples of stories from the "sensationalist gutter press that goes out of its way to diminish and demean transgender people." If the Biden Administration hadn't chosen virtue signal its appointment of a "gender fluid" man to a position of some importance, and that man hadn't chosen to present himself in a sensationalistic manner, and he hadn't been a thief, he would not be a story most people would care about. (The New Yorker might do a long, sober, serious article about his life and career, but I'd probably be the only one posting here to read it.) Likewise the case of Lemieux. There may be other transsexual teachers in Canada, but they do not dress and behave in a manner that calls attention to themselves. I expect that they simply want to get on with their lives living as the sex they feel they are. They are not looking for attention.
It has occurred to me that Lemieux's stunt is a ploy to:
1. Be suspended with pay from his teaching position. Because of the anti-discrimination law, he will never be fired, and will therefore collect his salary until Old Age Security payments kicks in, or
2. Agree to resign with a handsome settlement, or
3. Be fired and then sue for discrimination.
But most likely, he is simply a bad person. I was about to write "disturbed", as if he were not responsible for his actions, but I don't believe that. I think he is a bad person.
In the third paragraph I referred to Jan Morris. I assume rareboy knows who she is and perhaps has read books or articles by and/or about her. She was quite an interesting and commendable person and would be whether or not she was transgender.
en.wikipedia.org
Also:
To mark her 90th birthday, Jan Morris’s agent writes in praise of an extraordinary journalist, historian, traveller and free spirit, who has shown us the world
www.theguardian.com
Final paragraphs from the Guardian article above:
"When Jan and Elizabeth die, they will be buried together on an island in a stream near their home, beneath a stone bearing an inscription in both English and Welsh that says: “Here lie two friends, at the end of one life.”
"During the course of that life, Jan has gone wherever she pleased, and reported back on what the world is like for those of us who have not taken the trouble to explore it fully or with such an open mind. For this we should be very grateful."
(Elizabeth was Morris's wife.)