YOU KNOW IT AIN’T EASY –
Aug. 27, 2026 – Majur Traytowu is struggling to hold on to influence and authority amid a devastating alcohol epidemic ravaging her territory — and her own life. The choice of an unmarried trans woman was unexpected, analysts say, but not unthinkable.For decades, Brazil has ranked consistently as the world’s deadliest country for trans people …
Gender and sexual diversity have long been recognized in the country’s native societies. Discrimination against trans people, according to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, was introduced “alongside European moral and religious values, particularly those tied to Catholicism, which imposed more restrictive views.”
