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.
The new electees are activist Erika Hilton of the Socialism and Freedom Party, who was already a city councillor in São Paulo and chaired the first parliamentary investigation committee on transphobia there. And literature teacher Duda Salabert of the Democratic Labour Party, who was previously elected as a city councillor in Belo Horizonte with the highest ever recorded number of votes.
