Description

Our Mission
To achieve justice and equity for all transgender people, including those who identify as cross dressers, those who identify as being transsexual, and all other people with gender-related issues.




Organisation Profile
TransGender Victoria was founded in the late 1990s to address discrimination faced by transgender people in Victoria. We have been successful as a fearless advocate in legislative reform and work with government and community groups in all aspects of human rights for transsexuals and cross-dressers alike.

Our committee represents the diversity of our community by having all subgroups represented. While we don't represent the intersex community, we have a strong relationship with them and therefore have an intersex community liaison representative from the AISSGA.


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Organisation Objectives (extract from rules)

3. The primary objective of the Association is to provide benevolent relief to transgender people through establishing and operating a gender centre that directly provides a structured and consistent range of benevolent services to transgender people.



4. To achieve justice and equity for transgender people and their supporters, the Association may also pursue ancillary activities, provided that these activities are consistent with, and are undertaken in support of, the Association's primary objective.



5. For the purposes of carrying out the Association's objects, the Association may:



consult directly with individuals in the transgender community;
provide assistance to transgender people through counselling, mentoring, networking, referrals, and providing medical services and information;
promote understanding of transgender issues among medical and social service providers and, where necessary, to the broader community;
address areas of disadvantage and discrimination against transgender people through providing one-on-one advocacy for transgender people;
act alone or in concert with other persons or organisations in the furtherance of any or all of the objectives of the Association;
do such other things as the Association may consider being necessary and desirable to achieve and advance the objectives of the Association.


6. The assets and income of the Association shall be applied solely in furthering the above-mentioned objectives and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to the members of the Association except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of the Association.



7. For the avoidance of doubt, in any given year, no more than 20% of the Association's assets and income for that year will be devoted to pursuing the ancillary objectives set out in clause 4 above.



8. The Association recognizes Intersex as a separate and distinct group from Transgender, and does not represent nor seek to represent Intersex issues or people, although it endorses co-operation with and support of Intersex groups where appropriate and of potentially mutual benefit.

Website

www.transgendervictoria.com

State

Victoria

Social Category

Community Support/Advocacy