The Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC) launched on Monday (27) in Brasilia, the “agenda to confront violence against people LGBTQIA+”, providing education measures, public safety and the environment. Next Wednesday (29), it is National Day of Trans Visibility, a date created in 2004 to mark pride, existence, awareness and resistance of the trans and transvestite community. 
Fighting violence is a central point of public policy claims against transphobia. Last year, 122 trans and transvestites were murdered in Brazil, according to Last edition of the dossier of the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (Antra).
Dossier data were presented at the event by Antra President Bruna Benevides. According to her, “the state controls which lives will be valued and what are those disposable” and it is necessary to “interrupt the dynamics of violence and oppression.”
For Bruna Benevides, it has become increasingly evident than social inequality and non -access to public policies “are risk factors” for the community of transvestite and transsexual people. “The less public policies, the more setback.”
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Fabián Algarth, national coordinator of the Brazilian Institute of Transmasking Ibrat and representative of the National Council for the Rights of Persons LGBTQIA+, says that “it is a necessity” of people who are “minorized”, and that “they are not entitled to affection and are not entitled to body ”must remind the public power and the state of their constitutional obligations.
“The constitution is not just a beautiful text. The guarantee of the dignity of all people, access to safety, health, education, housing and leisure, there are written. And the obligation to do and to guarantee is the state. ”
The Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Macaé Evaristo, pointed out that “the state is not one block” and that it is necessary to perform parliamentarians committed to human rights to “transform such authoritarian political culture.”
For the minister it is a mistake to call the struggles against transphobia, racism and inequality of identity causes. “We need to understand that our struggles are structuring.”
Making reference to a speech by Martin Luther King that dealt with the arrival of the Promised Land, Macaé Evaristo admitted that “it may not be there. But surely many others will come after us, just as we succeeded many others that gave their lives, gave their effort, gave their imagination, their possibility of dreaming another world and that often we here We realize a little. ”
