Deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) gave a speech with a blonde wig on Women’s Day.| Photo: Playback/ TV Camera

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), sent a request to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) asking the body to comment on the possible suspension of social networks by federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG). The period given to the PGR is 5 days.

The procedure is part of a lawsuit against the parliamentarian presented to the STF by deputy Érika Hilton (PSOL-SP), last Monday (13), after he spoke in plenary on Women’s Day. Wearing a wig, the Minas Gerais parliamentarian said that “women are losing space for men who feel like women”.

In the action, the deputy asked for the blocking of all networks of the Minas Gerais deputy. For her, the parliamentarian would be taking advantage of a “criminal” speech, reaching repercussions on social networks and with a “significant increase” in followers.

PSOL also filed a criminal notice against the deputy, asking him to be investigated for the crime of transphobia, for allegedly “inducing and inciting discrimination and prejudice against trans people and transvestites”.

Transphobia was equated to the crime of racism by the STF, in 2019, and started to be treated as a non-bailable and imprescriptible crime.

The deputy has not yet commented on the process in the STF. Recently, Ferreira expressed himself on Twitter stating that, for him, there was no crime in his statements. “I defended the right of women not to lose their space in trans sports – given the biological difference – and not to have a man in the women’s bathroom. There is no transphobia in my speech. I clarified the example with a (shocking) wig. What passes for that is hysteria and narrative”.