Support Incarcerated
LGBTQ+ People
The Situation
As reported in The Marshal Project, on Thursday federal prisons will be ending gender-affirming care for transgender inmates (Schwartzapfel, 2026). Meaning, transgender inmates will no longer have access to hormones, surgery, clothing, or toiletries that might help them relieve their gender dysphoria. This policy follows a tidal wave of federal transphobic actions that’s been impacting the transgender community for years now, as well as attempts by the far right to characterize Transgender people as Nihilistic Violent Extremists. This most recent escalation will impact more than a 1,000 people diagnosed with gender-dysphoria in prisons across the country. Due to the intersectional nature of transphobia and the racist criminal justice system, this particularly leaves the most marginalized of us especially vulnerable. While certain things are out of our hands, we must do what we can to support our trans and broader LGBTQ+ community that are incarcerated.
Existing Organizations & Resources
The LGBT Books to Prisoners
Mission Statement: “We are a trans-affirming, racial justice-focused, prison abolitionist project sending books to incarcerated LGBTQ-identified people across the United States.”
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General Resource List 2025:
They collect a comprehensive list of resources on things like: where to get free reading materials to send to prisoners, legal supports, broader abolition resources, and pen pall services
https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/General-Resource-List-2025.pdf
Black &Pink National
Mission Statement: “Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.”
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Penpal Program
Black & Pink coordinates a nationwide penpal program that helps to connect LGBTQ+ people on the outside with those that are incarcerated.
https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-newsletter/General Resource List 2025:
Sex Worker Liberation Project
Another core aspect of their work is sex worker liberation. See their toolkit below
Prisoner Correspondence Project
Mission Statement: “The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a solidarity project for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners in Canada and the United States, linking them with people a part of these same communities outside of prison.”
Main Website:
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Getting a Penpal:
Penpal Program
The prisoner correspondence project collects a number of resources like zines, how to guides, etc. that you use for reference or send to prisoners
The Word is Out, their yearly newsletter
https://prisonercorrespondenceproject.com/product-category/newsletters/
Power Blossoms
Mission Statement: “Based in Southern California, Power Blossoms is an abolitionist organization bringing together queer and trans people on both sides of prison walls in the fight against hierarchies and State oppression.”
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Getting a Penpal:
Write a Birthday Card
Parole and Reentry Support