The responses to Machiavellian and careerist behavior demonstrate whether our parliament respects the institution itself.
The expediency of declaring all kinds of nonsense is always disguised as freedom of expression.
A survey by the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (ANTRA) shows that 131 transgender people were murdered and 20 took their own lives in Brazil in 2022, with 65% of cases involving hate crimes and 72% of suspects with no connection to the victim.
The information is in the dossier ‘Murders and violence against Brazilian transvestites and transsexuals’, presented on January 26 to the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC).
The study has been conducted by ANTRA since 2017, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the MDHC (to read the complete dossier).
There is a growing demand for representation in all sectors, all spaces, all debates, yet knowledge of diversity is still very limited, leading to a misunderstanding that all differences are part of the same universe.
It is not so. The diversity is immense and full of specificities. The needs of cisgender people are not the same as those of trans people. The needs of homosexuals are not the same as those of people with disabilities. Even people of the same gender and sexuality, but of different ethnicities, cultures or religions, have different grievances.
This lack of knowledge translates into an affront to protagonism. The mixing of different people without a clear understanding of specific needs messes up the guidelines and builds a type of discrimination that is very difficult to break because it is installed within the diversity itself.
The participation, with prominence, of trans women, drag and transvestites, in events alluding to International Women’s Day has generated many reactions and discussions on the space that each group should occupy. Opinions about this dynamic can be interpreted as biased, even if they are not.
Characters such as Nikolas Ferreira, federal deputy of PL/MG who gave a speech in the Chamber to mock transsexuality and use mockery to declare that “women’s place is stolen by men who feel like women” navigate this lack of knowledge.
The expediency of declaring all kinds of nonsense is always disguised as freedom of expression, as in this stupid and ignorant statement by the parliamentarian, but mockery can have no place in this discussion. And the response of the Chamber to the Machiavellian and careerist behavior of the deputy, whatever it is, will demonstrate whether our federal parliament and its members respect the institution itself.
Violence against trans people, against women, against people with disabilities and other diverse groups is not a joke or can serve as a source of ridicule.
It is urgent, imperative, that the National Congress and the institutions of our country fight very hard the demonstrations that generate death by difference.
History has already shown that toleration and inaction towards this conduct has disastrous consequences.
Source: Terra
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