Lucky to come home: Growing up trans in Brazil can be deadly

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Lucky to come home: Growing up trans in Brazil can be deadly
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There were 118 trans people murdered in Brazil last year, 29% of the world total, according to data. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SAO PAULO - Wearing a pink dress that matches the bow in her hair, eight-year-old Agatha flashes a smile that belies all she has been through as a trans child growing up in Brazil.

There were 118 trans people murdered in Brazil last year, 29 per cent of the world total, according to the National Network of Trans People of Brazil. Ms Aline Melo, a member of Ms Nunes’s organisation, says things have only gotten worse in recent years.“He’s proud of who he is. But he knows he can’t always be himself when he leaves the house,” she says.

Ms Celeste Armbrust still remembers how she felt when she embraced her own gender identity, her eyes lighting up beneath her new dyed-red bangs.

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