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Alexander Lee will launch the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Alternative Sentencing Project. The Project will seek to reduce incarceration rates of transgender, gender variant, and intersex people, and bring attention to the abuse TGI people frequently experience while imprisoned. The Project will combine alternative sentencing strategies with community organizing by TGI prisoners, former prisoners, and allies, to bring public scrutiny to this largely ignored human rights crisis. Mr. Lee will work in conjunction with service providers and the San Francisco Bay Area criminal justice system to route TGI people out of local jails and into social and medical services that will reduce the likelihood of recidivism and promote public safety. At the same time, Alex will support San Francisco Bay Area TGI community organizing, which will work to expose and end prison abuse of TGI people and address the root causes of why TGI people experience such high rates of incarceration. The Project intends not only to reduce the overall number of TGI people going to prison, but also to amplify the voices of TGI prisoners in the anti-prison movement and to further empower the TGI communities as a whole.

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