Gender Identity and the LGBT Movement in Brazil

Abstract

This chapter addresses the legislative, judicial and state policies aimed at trans persons, seeking to critically reflect, from an interdisciplinary approach, on the current Brazilian panorama. As is well known, the violence suffered by the trans population in Brazil is serious; constant violations of trans rights remain unsanctioned. The particularities of the Brazilian legislation are also taken up cursorily here, such as the regulation of the right to name and gender identity; the absence of the ``third sex/gender'' in registrations; the relationship between the rights of trans persons and of gay, lesbian and intersex persons in the country; and broader discussions about how sex/gender can be viewed as legal categories in the Brazilian context.