Far-right Brazilian Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, who once said he’d be “incapable of loving a homosexual son," will be sworn in as Brazil's president on Jan. 1.
The punitive legal environment combined with social stigma allows police abuse to go unchecked and prevents many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from reporting violence or getting medical care.
“We’re looking at it. We have a lot of different concepts right now. They have a lot of different things happening with respect to transgender right now,” Trump said. “And we’re looking at it very seriously.”
Brazil is headed to a high-stakes runoff presidential election on October 28th that will have huge implications for the largest country in Latin America, perhaps even the world.
The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.”
IT has been an odd facet of the debate around trans rights that those claiming to be silenced have managed to publish endless commentary in major newspapers, while the voices of trans people have remained remarkably absent.
