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Zoe Belle Gender Collective (ZBGC), formerly known as the Zoe Belle Gender Centre, is a Melbourne, Victoria-based organization that is concerned with the health and well-being of transgender and other gender diverse people. Among its activities, the organization has been campaigning for the establishment of a community centre. Zoe Belle Gender Collective was founded in 2007 and is named after the late transgender activist Zoe Belle. thumb ==History== Since the 1980s, local transgender organizations, such as the group Seahorse Victoria, have sought to establish a state-funded community centre for Victoria's transgender population. Zoe Belle Gender Collective is the most recent attempt to establish such a centre. The organization emerged following a forum on transgender healthcare at Camp Betty, a festival of radical sex and politics that was held 7–11 June 2007 in Melbourne. The forum began with the "premise that we need better healthcare for trans people, more community involvement in healthcare provision from transpeople rather than doctors and 'experts', and that this healthcare should be publicly funded." Following the forum, a group of activists from the local SGD community began a campaign to establish a 'gender centre' for Victoria. Among the group was Zoe Belle, an activist in LGBT rights, women's rights, and other causes. On 15 January 2008, Zoe Belle took her own life. In tribute to Zoe Belle, the group of activists became known as the Zoe Belle Gender Centre Working Group and they named the emerging organization Zoe Belle Gender Centre. On August 25th 2015 the Zoe Belle Gender Centre changing their name to the Zoe Belle Gender Collective to reflect their new mission, vision and objectives. Victoria has changed since ZBGC first formed, and there are many more services and resource for trans and gender diverse people all across the state. To support this momentum, rather than focus our energies on a single physical location, ZBGC will instead support this expanding work across Victoria through our online presence, community events, and work with service providers to better support the trans and gender community, and access to services statewide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zoe Belle Gender Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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