Transgender activists announced plans to apply pressure to Mayor Orlando Morando (shown) until Morando agrees to force women to perform body searches on men who self-identify as women. (Courtesy: Twitter)

BR — São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. Last week, transgender activists announced that they have organized an event to apply pressure to a local politician to issue a mandate that female guards conduct the body searches of men who self-identify as women. The event will take place this month.

“TRANSPHOBIA IS A CRIME!” declared Jornalistas Livres (Free Journalists) on their Facebook page. The post denounced São Bernardo’s Municipal Civil Guard for blocking three male individuals who attended the city’s Summer Festival from joining a queue to be searched by a female guard. The three individuals identify as women.

“Whether CIS or TRANS, WOMAN is searched by WOMAN,” a banner attached to the same post declared. “Due to Trans Visibility Month, we organized this PUBLIC ACT, demanding clarifications from Mayor Orlando Morando to the attitude of the Municipal Civil Guard (GCM) of the city that prevented Malevola, Khawany and Agatha Urach from entering the São Bernardo Summer Festival through a queue that would ensure that they were searched by a female guard.”



The event is to be hosted by LGBTI Municipal Forum of São Bernardo do Campo and Casa Neon Cunha on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 from 5 PM to 8 PM local time.

Critics are crying foul, arguing that it is a violation of the rights of female guards to be forced to conduct searches of male bodies.

At a summer festival in Brazil, female security were demanded to search festival goers who are fully anatomical males but id as women. They didn’t feel comfortable, now society is demanding again they touch males or else. Self ID in places like Brazil is pure colonization. https://t.co/wyYsPiUOvx — Andreia Nobre (@ariana_erbon) January 23, 2020

A male Facebook commenter insisted, “Trans is a man dressed as a woman, meaning he has a [penis] and not a [vagina]. So he has to be searched by a man. No more.”

To express your view of laws that mandate women engage in physical contact with men who self-identify as women, contact the following:

Orlando Morando

Call: +55 11 93058-0020

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: orlando.morando

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