
“Perfil das notificações de violências em lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e transexuais registradas no Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, Brasil, 2015 a 2017”.

Maria MARINHO, Marina BENÍCIO, Luana CORREIA, Renata POLIDORO, Maurício CANAVESE, Daniel. (2020 PINTO, Isabela Vitral ANDRADE, Silvânia RODRIGUES, Leandra SANTOS.

In a Brazilian study that sought to describe the profile of notifications of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, travesti and transgender people (LGBT) between 20, based on secondary data from the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (SINAN), Isabella Vitral Pinto et al. “Post-mortem violence against travestis in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil”. From the 1 st to the 24 th of January 2020 alone, there was a 180% increase in the number of homicides compared with the previous year ( Souza et al., 2021 SOUZA, Martha Helena Teixeira de MISKOLCI, Richard SIGNORELLI, Marcos BALIEIRO, Fernando PEREIRA, Pedro Paulo Gomes. According to Rede Trans Brasil, in 2018, there were 150 murder cases and, in 2019, 10,535. Among these deaths, 80% occurred after excessive violence, and in only 8% of cases were the suspects identified. In 2019, 124 trans persons and travestis were murdered in Brazil, according to the Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (ANTRA). In a short space and time, this series of murders seemed to condense the existing appalling data on violence against travestis and trans persons. Before her, Carol and Mana had already suffered the same fate and, soon after, news came of two more murders, those of Selena and Morgana.

It was the third death during that period. She was a local leader and ran a boarding house for travestis. On the morning of December 13 th, 2019, I received a message informing me that Verônica had been murdered. We were in mourning, stunned by the escalation of violence against travestis in the city of Santa Maria, a municipality in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
