Experiencing incarceration is a universally harmful experience. For members of the LGBTQ community, trans folks in particular, that harm is elevated. They are overrepresented in prison populations and are especially at risk for facing violence in these settings.

To support the groups and individuals trying to help members of the LGBTQ community on the inside, we want to take a moment to boost their efforts in this thread.

@release_fund is a mutual aid fund dedicated to supporting BIPOC trans folks along with individuals who are medically vulnerable. You can contribute to their fund here: https://emergencyreleasefund.com 

@FreeThemAll2020 is part of the movement to release people from incarceration in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their demands were formulated with the idea of protecting the most marginalized members of our communities, including those who are trans or gender nonconforming.

STAR was a mutual aid organization founded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera to help marginalized LGBTQ youth and sex workers. For anyone looking to read up, this pamphlet helps explain the importance of STAR in the movement for queer liberation: https://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2011/12/STAR.pdf.