Alexander L. Lee is the Director and founder of the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization in San Francisco. TGIJP is the only organization dedicated full-time to providing legal services and community organizing assistance to transgender persons experiencing human rights violations in California prisons.

Jovida Guevara-Ross is the Executive Director of Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco-based organization that works to end violence against and within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Jovida's work prioritizes affirmative visions of healing, community building, and real safety for all people.

Blog Entries by Alexander L. Lee and Jovida Guevara-Ross

Former Transgender Inmate Sues State to Stop Sexual Abuse

Posted August 3, 2007 | 05:32 PM (EST)


Alexis Giraldo is a young Puerto Rican woman who served over two years in California prisons. Unlike most women, she was placed in a men's prison and endured repeated violent rape by her male cellmates. She begged for help from prison staff, reported her injuries to doctors and therapists, and...

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