My employer's support has helped me challenge prejudice surrounding my gender change
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2013/06/my-employers-support-has-helped-me-challenge-prejudice-surrounding-my-gender-change/ (http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2013/06/my-employers-support-has-helped-me-challenge-prejudice-surrounding-my-gender-change/)
6/10/13
by Andy McNicoll
"I felt targeted by some of my fellow social work students because I was different. I wasn't a man, and I wasn't a woman, even though I'd had all of this surgery done," says Kay*, not her real name, recalling her experiences of social work training as a member of the transgender community.
"A couple of them told me that I was unfit to become a social worker and I shouldn't be working with children," she says. "This was two and a half years into a three year degree. I was offended by that. I put in a complaint but it went unheard."