Given the way in which LGBTQ+ people have historically been portrayed as a threat to children or as seducers of the young, this lack of trust in trans teachers strikes a depressingly familiar note. The damaging effects of this kind of suspicion on trans people themselves are clear from the tragic case of Lucy Meadows, the trans schoolteacher we met in the Introduction who took her own life in 2013 after becoming the focus of a media frenzy.
