A Brazilian member of Congress will not be very proud of the U.S. State Division.
Posting on Instagram ealier this week, Congressman Erika Hilton revealed that his visa had been modified from “feminine” to “male” when he went to gather it.
Hilton had utilized for the visa after touring to the U.S. to talk on the Brazil Convention at Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise that passed off earlier this month.
He defined the state of affairs on Instagram, accusing Trump of a “hatred and fixation” towards transgender individuals:
Sure, it’s true. I used to be labeled as “male” by the U.S. authorities after I went to use for my visa to attend the Brazil Convention at Harvard College and MIT.
I’m not stunned. This has already been taking place with the paperwork of trans individuals within the U.S. for a number of weeks.
Nor am I stunned by the extent of hatred and fixation these individuals have with trans people. In any case, the paperwork I introduced are corrected, and I’m registered as a lady—even on my start certificates.
In different phrases, they’re ignoring official paperwork from different sovereign nations, even these of a diplomatic consultant, simply to dig up whether or not the individual sooner or later had a distinct registration.
However on the finish of the day, I’m a Brazilian citizen, and my rights are assured and my existence revered by our personal structure, legal guidelines, and jurisprudence.
And if the U.S. embassy has one thing to say about me, they will say it quietly, inside their constructing—surrounded on all sides by our Democratic Rule of Regulation.
What issues me is a rustic ignoring official paperwork relating to the identification of its personal residents and altering them to suit the narrative and rights-stripping agenda of the present President.
As a result of this gained’t cease with us or have an effect on solely trans individuals—the listing of targets for these individuals is huge.
It was already being written when the primary enslaved individual was freed, when the primary lady voted, when employees demanded their first elevate, when Indigenous individuals reclaimed their land, when a Latino tried to get again a fraction of what was taken from him.
And that listing of targets retains rising. It’s a part of a world political agenda of hatred, one which doesn’t cease on the U.S. border.
However right here in Brazil, it’s a political agenda of hatred that we’ve already defeated as soon as. And we’ll defeat it once more—as many occasions as mandatory.
The 32-year-old has had fairly a backstory.
A former intercourse employee, he went on to review instructing and gerontology earlier than getting into politics as a Sao Paolo metropolis councillor as a consultant for President Lula Da Silva’s Socialism and Liberty Occasion.
He was additionally the primary brazenly transgender individual elected to the Nationwide Congress of Brazil and has turn out to be a cheerleader for socialism and progressive ideology.
