Callout for pediatrician/psychiatrist/psychologist for LGBTI family law conference

Callout for pediatrician/psychiatrist/psychologist for LGBTI family law conference

This is a callout for a pediatrician, psychiatrist or psychologist who is helping trans adult or children, preferably from south east Queensland.

In July there is going to be a family law conference on the Gold Coast to focus on LGBTI issues. One of the issues to be addressed are the challenges for trans people in the legal system- but from a non-lawyer. Someone from the helping professions, such as a pediatrician, or a psychiatrist or a psychologist would be ideal to speak at the conference. It might be someone helping trans young people who face the enormity of having to go to the Family Court to obtain orders for medical treatment.

Or it might be someone who helps adult trans people.

If you know someone, please email me their details at spage@harringtonfamilylawyers.com,  so I can out their name forward to the conference organisors.

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