While many psychologists and their representative organisations champion trans rights, the field’s core methodologies reinforce conservative, pathologising narratives. Psychology often considers transgender identity with reference to disease models like ‘gender dysphoria’, locating the problems that transgender persons encounter within the individual rather than in a transphobic society. Its reductionist practices, such as binary gender categories, render trans people invisible or misrepresented. By individualising distress and ignoring systemic oppression, psychology’s focus on the psyche rather than social context inadvertently supports anti-trans arguments and stigmatisation. Thus, despite progressive statements, the discipline’s inherent biases contribute to moral panics and serve to perpetuate cisnormative prejudice.