The federal deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) shared on social networks, this Wednesday (23), the meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieirato treat – “In an attempt to seek solutions” – The case of the US visa, in which it had the gender identity changed to “masculine”.
“I was today at Itamaraty with Chancellor Mauro Vieira, Foreign Minister and Head of our diplomacy, whom I thank you for receiving me. We had a conversation in an attempt to seek solutions to the absurdity practiced against me by the US embassy“He published.
Erika said that about the case for “Charge the appropriate explanations to the US embassy”.
“And that Brazil remains the diplomatic giant that has always beenand Itamaraty is guided by respect for national sovereigntyto our people, the documents issued by Brazil and the diplomatic prerogatives of parliamentarians on an official mission, ”he added.
“For it is intolerable that and the very records of a sovereign nation,” he concluded.
Erika Hilton was invited to talk this month at an event held at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and said that was surprised to receive the change of his visa. She gave up the trip after the episode.
The parliamentarian also stated that “Donald Trump does not own the United States, of trans people.”
In a statement, he said it is the country’s politics to recognize two sexes – male and female -, considered, according to the embassy, “unchanging” since birth.
“The US Embassy reports that visa records are confidential according to American law and, by politics, we do not comment on individual cases. We also emphasize that, according to Executive Order 14168, it is the US policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, considered unchanging since birth,” the statement says.
