TGI Justice Project

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|name = TGI Justice Project

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|founded_date = 2004

|area_served = California, United States

|focus = Transgender rights
Prisoners' rights

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|homepage = [http://www.tgijp.org/ www.tgijp.org]

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File:Janetta Johnson at San Francisco Trans March 2016 -2.jpg.]]

The Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project or TGIJP) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization working to end human rights abuses against transgender, intersex, and gender-variant people, particularly trans women of color in California prisons and detention centers.{{cite web |title=About Us |url=http://www.tgijp.org/about.html |website=TGI Justice |access-date=June 4, 2019 |archive-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601010149/http://www.tgijp.org/about.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine |last1=Dommu |first1=Rose |title=7 Organizations to Support That Aren't the Homophobic Salvation Army |url=https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2018/11/21/7-organizations-support-arent-homophobic-salvation-army |access-date=June 4, 2019 |magazine=Out |date=November 21, 2018}}{{cite magazine |last1=Madison |first1=Alex |title=The nation's first trans cultural district is starting to turn ideas into reality |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/10/nations-first-trans-cultural-district-starting-turn-ideas-reality/ |access-date=June 4, 2019 |magazine=LGBTQ Nation |date=October 7, 2018}} Originally led by Black trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Asian American trans man and activist Alexander L. Lee (also the organization's founder),{{cite news |last1=Nguyen |first1=Stacy |title=Trans rights org founder Alex Lee on activism and importance of Black women leaders |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2020/07/trans-rights-org-founder-alex-lee-on-activism-and-importance-of-black-women-leaders/ |access-date=6 July 2023 |work=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=2 July 2020}} the current executive director of TGIJP is Janetta Johnson, a Black trans woman who was formerly incarcerated in a men's prison.{{cite magazine |last1=Chitnis |first1=Rucha |title=Why Defending Human Rights Is Women's Work |url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/why-defending-human-rights-is-womens-work-20170308 |access-date=June 4, 2019 |magazine=Yes! |date=March 8, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Puglise |first1=Nicole |title=LGBT prisoners' art exhibit offers voice to the incarcerated – and 'call to action' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/lgbt-prisoners-art-exhibit-new-york-on-the-inside |access-date=June 4, 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=November 6, 2016}}

In 2016, TGIJP joined Black Lives Matter in withdrawing from the San Francisco Pride Parade, in protest of increased police presence at the event.{{cite magazine |last1=Chan |first1=Rosalie |title=Black Lives Matter Withdraws From San Francisco Pride Parade in Response to Increased Policing |url=https://time.com/4382842/black-lives-matter-withdraws-from-san-francisco-pride-parade-in-response-to-increased-policing/ |access-date=June 4, 2019 |magazine=Time |date=June 25, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Najarro |first1=Ileana |title=Black Lives Matter withdraws from S.F.'s Pride Parade due to increased police presence |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-black-lives-matter-sf-pride-20160624-snap-story.html |access-date=June 4, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 25, 2016}}