Zoe Belle Gender Centre (ZBGC) has received funding to assist health service providers to reduce suicide and self-harm rates among young gender diverse and gender questioning people. This is the first time that a transgender organisation in Victoria has received government funding. Would you like to put yourself in this pioneering picture? ZBGC is seeking [...]
Among ZBGC’s strongest supporters is TransGender Victoria (TGV), an organisation that has been a committed advocate for transgender people in Victoria since the late 1990s. Here’s a recent photo of some members of the ZBGC Working Group and TGV Committee. We had just finished having a good meeting. Also featured in this photo is the Memorandum of Understanding [...]
Does your organisation work with or have plans to work with same sex attracted and/or sex and gender diverse (SSASGD) young people (aged 14 – 25 years)? The HEY Grants, a brokerage and innovation small grant round, have been established to assist organisations in providing mental health promotion and capacity building activities for SSASGD young [...]
Tickets are now on sale for this fantastic fundraiser for ZBGC – a queer roller derby that pits Victoria against NSW: Tickets are $15 (adults) /$8 (under 12s) and all proceeds are donated to ZBGC. Here’s some of the spiel from the official event website: Get on board for the queerest thing to hit Australian [...]
Do you know of any trans*-friendly practitioners, groups or organisations in outer Melbourne or regional Victoria? ZBGC regularly receives queries from people in outer Melbourne and regional Victoria who are seeking resources. In particular, these queries are among some of the most frequently-posted questions to our Questions and Answers website. The Q&A site has received queries from the Mildura [...]
We’ve added two great fact sheets to this website: “Psychiatrists, Psychologists & Counsellors: What’s the Difference? compares psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors in terms of their work with sex and gender diverse (SGD) people. It’s a useful resource for SGD people who are unsure about the differences between these types of practitioners “How Many People are Gender Diverse?” contains [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Zoe Belle Gender Centre (ZBGC) and TransGender Victoria (TGV) have welcomed the allocation of funding to ZBGC for youth suicide prevention in the GLBTI community as an “historic first step” for Victoria’s sex and gender diverse population. As announced by Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge last Friday, ZBGC was one of seven [...]
