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VIEW FROM BRAZIL

Lula’s return to power is not the only change in Brazilian politics for 2023. For the first time we will have two trans women in parliament. This is remarkable because we are the country that, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring platform, killed the most trans people between 2008 and 2022.

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