How Schools can Better Support their Transgender and Gender Diverse Students

About the Webinar

The team at School Governance regularly receive requests to provide more content to assist schools with supporting transgender and gender diverse students and navigating potentially complicated issues.

In this webinar, we invite Nevo Zisin, author and educator on transgender topics, to join Deborah de Fina, CompliSpace Principal Consultant – Child Protection, for a live Q&A. During this 60-minute webinar we will discuss:

Understanding terms around gender diversity
Common challenges impacting transgender and gender diverse people
Pragmatic tips for creating inclusive environments for trans and gender diverse students
Cover inclusive terms and pronouns
Live Q&A.

When: This webinar went live on Tuesday 9th May | 12:00-1:00 pm AEST*

*Please note, to receive a copy of the recording, simply fill out the form.

Deborah de Fina

Principal Consultant, Child Safeguarding, CompliSpace

Deborah recently completed five years working with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse where she assisted the Royal Commission to establish the Private Session process and subsequently managed its legal aspects. Prior to working with the Royal Commission, Deborah had her own successful consulting practice where she specialised in the statutory child protection system, legal issues facing children and vulnerable people, and legal aid. She also spent more than nine years at Legal Aid NSW, as a child protection solicitor, Senior Solicitor and then Solicitor in Charge, Child Protection. Deborah holds a Juris Doctorate from the Columbia University School of Law, a Master of International Affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a Diploma in Law from Sydney University.

Nevo Zisin

Author and Educator

Nevo Zisin (they/them) is a storyteller, esteemed educator on transgender topics, TEDx speaker, poet, workshop facilitator in schools and workplaces, and award-winning author of Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021), a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns. They have been in-conversation with Queer Eye’s brilliant Jonathan Van Ness, Transparent producer Zackary Drucker & world-famous spoken-word poet & activist Alok Vaid-Menon. Their work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, NGV Magazine, Archer Magazine, Buzzfeed, Junkee, SBS, Hack Live, ABC’s The Drum, The Morning Show, amongst others. They were a 2022 Varuna Scribe Fellow and is an ambassador for Wear It Purple and was an inaugural ambassador for the Victorian Pride Centre.