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OUR WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY BEING REDESIGNED WITH THE HELP OF DESIGN ACTION.
THE GOAL IS FOR OUR WEBSITE TO BETTER REFLECT THE WORK WE DO, WHO WE SUPPORT, WHO SUPPORTS US AND EXIST AS A REFERENCE TO ABOLITION WORK BEING LED BY TGI PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY INCARCERATED, FORMERLY INCARCERATED BLACK & BROWN TGI PEOPLE.

PLEASE EXTEND US GRACE AS WE UNDERGO OUR AFFIRMING SURGERY (TGIJP GETS HER FFS☺️!)
NEW WEBSITE EXPECTED JUNE 2022! 🎊

The Legal & Policy Work


  • ​Support to the TGIJP Leadership Academy by training incarcerated and formerly incarcerated TGI people throughout the state of California in basic legislative advocacy skills.

  • Legal mail and emergency line which responds to an average of 100 legal letters a month providing legal assistance, and 25 emergency calls a month to respond to emergent legal needs or immediate safety concerns.

  • Assistance obtaining parole by sending support letters to institutions and offering housing, and employment through placement in our re-entry program.

  • Representation for Clemency Applications and Clemency support for release.

  • Advocacy for transfer to safer prison or housing within a prison pursuant to SB 132.

  • Assistance filing complaints under the Prison Rape Elimination Act and through prison administrative appeals processes

  • Submission of complaints to U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General for retaliation from filing complaints under the Prison Rape Elimination Act and US and State Constitutions.

  • Litigation of incidents of transphobia, abuse, torture, discrimination, against institutional employees and institutions.
  • Assistance with name and gender marker updates. 

  • Participatory defense support for criminal charges linked to acts of self defense and survival.  
  • Co-Sponsorship of the California TGI Policy Coalition (CTPA), a coalition comprised only of TGI led organizations,  and TGIJP employee positions in the steering committee with community members most impacted, including, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated TGI people in California to develop and pass groundbreaking legislation to bring resources to TGI communities: 
  • Cosponsorship of legislation to give tools to TGI people inside California prisons including:
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  • Monitoring of compliance of CDCR with SB132 and other laws protecting TGI people by corresponding with Incarcerated TGI people, and engaging in direct non-litigation advocacy on violations.

  • Support members of the community to a on issues that align with our Vision and Mission.
  • Opportunities and support for formerly incarcerated people to ensure TGI people will be safe when transferred to facilities designated for women under SB 132 by:
    • Acting as a resource for cis gender women in custody to answere questions and concerns over e-mail, so that our TGI family do not have to
    • Identifying TGI leaders in women’s facilities to act as ambassadors/organizers to the cisgender population
    • Organizing with identified ambassadors, TGI people who have been transferred, and sympathetic cisgender people for solidarity against gender based violence, especially that perpetrated by CDCr staff.

  • Direct advocacy for TGI people denied transfer under SB 132 for illegal grounds.


Leadership on policy and program initiatives:
  • City and County of San Francisco TGI Diversion Program to release TGI people in SF jails to community organizations.
  • Train criminal court judges, SF pretrial, and the SF DA’s office on how to channel TGI people into this program of community support instead of prisons or jails.
  • Decarceration Communications Campaign and Strategy to build support for decarceration legislation.
  • Supporting Defund SFPD and PIC by forwarding our abolitionist demands.
  • No New SF Jails coalition membership
  • Advisory Committee Member of the San Francisco Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention.

 
  • Host of quarterly name and gender ID clinics in San Francisco CA.
 
  • Lead weekly political education training for our membership.
 
  • Hold monthly Legal Mail clinics to train law students how to answer legal mail from TGI people in prisons.
 
  • Train attorneys to represent incarcerated TGI people pro bono in the Incarcerated TGI Representation Network.
 
  • Survey 105 TGI people in California prisons in the 2020 California TGI Survey to  monitor prison conditions and abuse.
 
  • Collaboration with Beyond Binary Legal and CTPA to track the experiences of TGIpeople in the following areas:
  1. Housing
  2. Healthcare
  3. Policing
  4. Prisons
  5. Reentry
  6. Public accomodations
  7. Employment
  8. Education 
 
  • Tools to Amplify Voice and Power of incarcerated TGI people by organizing and supporting Community Based Participatory Research projects to support legislation and lobby efforts.

  • Create know your rights resources for incarcerated TGI people in all 50 states.

Decarceration Campaigns 

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