The determination of the Federal Supreme Court to classify acts of homophobia and transphobia as a crime of racial injury is positive.
This is the vision of the president of the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (ANTRA) Keila Simpson Sousa.
In practice, whoever is responsible for acts of this type will not be entitled to bail, nor will there be a time limit for responding in court.
A CNN Radio on CNN Plural, she explained that the decision “will in fact balance the understandings.”
This is because “the lower courts insisted on not squaring the crime of racial injury individually.”
“When they complied, it was with a form of racism aimed at collectives”, he explained.
However, Keila pointed out that most people who suffer from transphobia and LGBTphobia happen on an individual basis.
“Individual violence is the most present, of verbal and psychological aggression”, he exemplified.
The president of ANTRA sees that, now with a uniform understanding, it will be “more peaceful in all instances.”
We will be able to assure that that decision, when it is not granted, is about “harassment and homotransphobia of those who act in these cases.”
With the decision well typified, whoever commits the acts “will have to pay criminally.”
“What we will do is dialogue so that society understands that you cannot commit offenses against the person and get away with it,” he added.
*Produced by Isabel Campos
Source: CNN Brasil
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