Woman granted refugee status after facing prison for misgendering

I will add Brazil to the list of countries not to visit.

Thus far it is a single source story. The European conservative is echoing the Reduxx story. Their X account repeats the Reduxx story. I am not saying the quote is fake just that it is not formalised in their official channels other than X. They are definitely GC and a legitimate NGO. Their website : https://www.associacaomatria.com/

https://x.com/MATRIAoficial/status/1953168532704817349

And a potential doubling if a group does it. There is a real case so far with only the heavy fine, almost USD 15 000.

This story - concerning as it is - remains unverified outside Reduxx and European Conservative. I'd like more corroboration as I find the notion of a 25 year sentence preposterous. Extraordinary stories need evidence to back them up.

From Chatgpt:

In 2019, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) ruled that homophobia and transphobia are to be prosecuted under the country’s anti-racism law, a designation with serious legal implications . This means that intentionally misgendering someone—depending on context—could be seen as a hate crime.

1. Criminal Penalties for Transphobic Speech

1. Application to Public Officials

Maybe all the indigenous people should identify as trans.

The world is going bonkers and this is a prime example.

Sometimes I really don't like it very much at all.

They are classic macho misogynist societies and men are centred at every turn. So the trans thing is not surprising. Shades of Iran and Pakistan. Also India to a lesser extent.

It's extremely tempting... but if this is how Brazil is already in their ferocity to centre one group and severely punish those who dare to calmly express different beliefs, I really don't think we would want to send one of our TRAs there to add extra fuel to their already out-of-control anti-GC fire.

Whilst their grossly appropriating racism to win their own personal cause is reprehensible, this does kind of remind me of the old social commentary 'joke' during apartheid-era South Africa, about three men in prison.

The first white man says that he was given 5 years for robbery, but he heard he would have got 10 years if he'd had a weapon; the second white man says that he was given 15 years for manslaughter, but was told it would have been 25 years if intent to kill could have been proven; the black man says that he was given 30 years for riding his bike without lights, but he was 'lucky', as he would have been given a mandatory whole-of-life term if it hadn't been noon on a bright summer's day.

Whilst the false association with racism in the Brazil case are obviously beyond disgusting, there clearly is one ultra privileged, untouchable class there.

I know you speak in jest but actually some sort of Victim Exchange Treaty is a logical conclusion to this insanity.

Is racist abuse - hurty words, not bodily assault or murder- worth 25 years in the slammer? If you say yes, you are part of the problem.

Latino countries are often left off the hook for their abhorrent abortion policies because all the attention is focussed on the US or other places where considered rightwing like Poland. It is a politically tribal culture war rather than genuine concern for women that informs the abortion talk. I switch off when I hear of abortions rights being restricted in the US or UK, sorry I care more about abortion rights in the Philippines. Western feminists have a distorted and unreal perspective of the global abortion issue. They tend to follow their tribal leaders. Abortion rights in Brazil are ignored when darling Lola is in charge but suddenly a burning issue when a right wing devil comes to power.

Worse than that: they've tacked it on to racism laws, for whatever reason or agenda they believed that to be sensible.

Now, if you hurl vile, nasty racist abuse at somebody and threaten them with (or actually perpetrate) violence for nothing more than being of a different racial heritage from you - that is no worse than respectfully and calmly asking a man who hasn't even bothered to shave off his beard and moustache in his attempt to 'pass' as a woman to use the correct toilets for his sex.

Those news stories are an absolute horror show!

It's a shame they are not so bothered about women's rights and protecting the rights of indigenous people.

Now that we've received Isabella Cêpa over on this side, could we enable one of the prominent trans activists who is facing unbearable oppression following the SC judgment to move over to Brazil?

This is both astonishing (in the level of punishment) and positive in that a country, somewhere in Europe does not consider a prison sentence for correctly sexing a man is appropriate.

Obviously the detail about which country is being kept private, but whichever it is, thank goodness there is one.

Well, a crime to any degree at all, or even a ‘hate incident’.

This is absolutely terrifying.
Deny what everyone knows to be true or you lose your liberty.

Orwellian.

An asylum claim I would support 100%

You’re right, it’s not just “misgendering” non-trans people that’s not a crime. What about calling someone fat, or old, or short? Whether they are or are not, it would be insanity to make that a crime, never mind one with a huge prison sentence. It may mean you’re insensitive or rude but you can’t make it a crime to be anything other than kind/controlled by other people’s demands at all times.

While I find this horrifying, part of me also thinks/hope that totally preposterous scenes like this are part of the process of genderism reaching its ultimate totally ludicrous grotesqueness, and that that’s a sign of its imminent collapse, because you can’t sustain departing from reality to this extent for long. For one thing it will clog up the courts and prisons, if butthurt TW can punish women this way, and the public will oppose it.