Well yeah, step one is showing that there is a problem. Bias training has to do something for the not insignificant amount of people that don’t believe that they have a noticeable bias. If you actually want the training to be effective you have destroy the “but I can’t be racist because...”

There’s nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to having bias: women think other women are less competent than their male coworkers, trans women struggle with thinking of other trans women as men, black men find other black men threatening. Your first thought is the one you’ve been conditioned to think and is broadly speaking shared by everyone. It’s when you don’t stop to have the second thought — your own thought that’s the problem.

“No, that’s silly. I’ve seen her work — she absolutely knows what she’s talking about.”

“She’s a woman. Full stop.”

“That guy is just minding his own business and given zero actual signs of being a threat.”