Entities press Mendonça for punishment against Nikolas – 03/13/2023 – Mônica Bergamo

The National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (Antra) and the Group of Lawyers for Sexual and Gender Diversity (Gadvs) are going to address to Minister André Mendonça, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), a petition in which they demand that Deputy Nikolas Ferreira ( PL-MG) be held responsible for a transphobic speech made on the Chamber’s tribune.

The episode took place last week, during Women’s Day. When taking the floor, the parliamentarian put a blonde wig on his head and mocked the existence of transsexual women. “Today I feel like a woman. Deputy Nicole”, he joked, in front of his colleagues.

“Women are losing their space for men who feel like women. For you to have an idea of ​​the danger of all this, they are wanting to impose a reality that is not reality,” he continued.

Because of the transphobic statements, Nikolas became the target of impeachment requests and criminal notices sent to the STF — which will be reported by Mendonça.

For Antra and Gadvs, the attitude of the PL deputy sought to “create moral panic in society”, attacked the dignity of transgender women and configured the crime of transphobia. They also remember that, in the past, the court framed transphobia and homophobia in the law of crimes of racism.

“May the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court André Mendonça not refrain from holding the deputy responsible for the transphobic speech, with the flagrant intention of demeaning and humiliating trans women due to their condition”, says the petition, which will be open for signatures.

“Not punishing the explicit transphobia in this case would be consenting to its naturalization and authorizing other people to continue uttering hate speeches against the trans community”, continues the document.

The entities still reject the hypothesis that Nikolas Ferreira is protected by parliamentary immunity, since his speech would have incurred in crime, or else by the fundamental right to freedom of expression or religious belief.

“The deputy’s attitude, in addition to being shameful and regrettable, encourages acts of violence against trans and transvestites and needs to be held accountable”, they say.

According to a dossier carried out by Antra, Brazil is still the country that most kills trans people in the world. Of the 131 deaths recorded last year, 130 were trans and transvestite women. About 90% of the victims were between 15 and 40 years old.

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