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Brazil: in order not to displease trans people, the ID card will have a social name

By Edilson Salgueiro

The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is about to announce changes in the "social name" and "gender" fields on the National Identity Card (CIN).

The document should replace other forms of identification for Brazilians, such as Identity Registration (RG).

According to the Federal Prosecutor for the Rights of the Citizen (PFDC), an agency linked to the Federal Public Ministry, the inclusion of the registered name in the CIN - as occurs in the RG - would be a "flagrant violation of the right to self-determination of the Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed?

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