Trans dogma as professional requirement:

[A] social worker who was critical of aspects of transgender ideology has been sanctioned by Social Work England (SWE), the regulatory body for social workers. In July this year, a female social worker was given a one-year ‘warning order’, following a complaint from a member of the public that she ‘used social media unethically’. Case examiners at SWE agreed that she made a number of posts on Facebook that were ‘discriminatory in nature’. According to the disciplinary report, she shared links ‘to fundraising pages for people and / or organisations which appear to hold and / or have publicised discriminatory views’. She also ‘shared and signed petitions that pursue a discriminatory goal’. Because of this, Social Work England ruled that her ‘fitness to practise is impaired by way of misconduct’.

The social worker’s posts expressed ‘gender critical’ views in relation to the increasingly toxic and polarised transgender debate. Case examiners at Social Work England say explicitly in their report that ‘no evidence has been offered that would suggest that the social worker acted in a transphobic manner while at work’. Similarly, examiners heard testimony from her line manager that she ‘has never practised in a discriminatory way’. In other words, the whole basis of the case against her was that she expressed the ‘wrong’ views about trans issues on social media.

And the ‘wrong’ views aren’t that X people are inferior or naturally subordinate or both, they are simply that people are the sex they are and not the other one. The ‘wrong’ views are views that were universal until a few years ago. The ‘wrong’ views are about a matter of fact, on which the ‘right’ views are more eccentric and fantasy-based and hard to believe than the ‘right’ views – in other words a professional body is making it a disciplinary matter to believe obvious facts instead of non-obvious fictions. Apparently you have to believe (or at least pretend to believe) that people are whatever sex they say they are if you want to be a social worker.

So if a woman is married to an abusive man, and they have kids and no money and are struggling, if the man says he’s a woman any social worker who takes their case has to agree with him, including if the woman married to the man doesn’t agree that he’s a man.

How’s that going to work out?