80% of São Paulo's trans population report verbal violence, first municipal study shows

80% of surveyed transgender and travesti individuals reported experiencing verbal violence including public insults, ridicule, and harassment in multiple settings including schools, workplaces, and family homes.

On Brazil's National Trans Visibility Day, the city of São Paulo released its first comprehensive survey of transgender life within its borders — and the portrait it drew was one of pervasive hostility in the most ordinary places. Of nearly 1,800 trans and travesti individuals interviewed throughout 2020, four out of five reported experiencing verbal violence: on streets, in schools, inside family homes. The study was designed not merely to document suffering, but to transform it into the foundation for public policy — a recognition that data, when gathered with care, can become an instrument

80% of São Paulo's trans population report verbal violence, first municipal study shows

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