The State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersex and more (Felgtbi) has asked this Monday the Prosecutor’s Office to act forcefully and rigorously against legal fraud, in the face of “the shameful parade” of people who “mock” posing as trans people “in a grotesque way.”
In addition, he has asked the media for responsibility and not to give prominence and promotion to people who try to mock trans people through law fraud.
The president of the Felgtbi, Uge Sangil, has warned that giving public prominence to possible law frauds only serves to generate a call effect to other people who only seek to appear in the media to discredit the current legislation and humiliate trans people, mock and laugh at their reality, exposing them to suffer more violence.
“Fortunately, the law has sufficient mechanisms to identify and prosecute fraud after the fact and it is easy to detect them. Therefore, we request that these cases be investigated with diligence, rigor and forcefulness, since all the indications point to the real intention of these people is questioning the law and singling out trans people, rather than making a real gender change,” he noted.
In this sense, he has stressed that the search for media prominence with speeches and statements about their identity or sexual orientation that are meaningless, the intention of wanting to use the law for a supposed legal benefit that does not correspond to them, not having changed their name, does not using the pronouns of the gender they claim to have or seeking to make citizens uncomfortable, especially women, “are elements, all together, indicative of fraud in the law.”
Sangil remembers that changing one’s registered sex does not allow one to avoid a conviction for gender violence, as stated in the LGTBI Law in its article 46: the crime is judged based on the legal sex that the person had when the person committed the criminal act.