Better Lives – Supporting Intersex Students (for Social Workers and School Psychologists)

This workshop is for Social Workers and School Psychologists.

Participants will gain the understanding and skills needed to organise and understand reasonable adjustments and supports that may be required from students with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex).

For more information, view link: Better Lives – Working It Out Inc.

About the facilitator: 

This session will be facilitated by Working It Out’s Better Lives Project Officer.

Simone-lisa Anderson (she/her) is the Tasmanian representative for IPSA (Intersex Peer Support Australia) also the secretary for all IPSA representatives both nationally and internationally and the IPSA Parent representative for Australia. She is a co-researcher with Interlink (https://www.ilink.net.au/), a Yellow Tick facilitator (https://darlington.org.au/yellowtick/) and a member of The Tasmanian Whole of Government LGBTIQA+ steering committee, a member of the DoH LGBTIQA+ reference group and the DoJ LGBTIQA+ reference group. She does consultation work within many departments of the Tasmanian Government and other jurisdictions. A founding member of the Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board under the ACT’s Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Act 2023, and a co-designer of the Victorian intersex Health and Wellbeing Project. She has over 20 years’ experience as a teacher with her focus being within the areas of Science and Mathematics.