A 2018 review by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research found that training for child and family social workers on transgender issues is ‘largely deficient’ and that social workers’ knowledge was ‘very mixed’.9 All of which, I’d argue, speaks of the enduring societal prejudice against trans people, and staff-training modules alone won’t fix the problem. In this cisgender worldview, being trans is always considered an undesirable – if sometimes tolerable – result for a human being.
