Officials in communities spanning from urban to rural and blue to red said the list doesn’t appear to make sense.
The specter of violence Manicongo faced five centuries ago hasn’t vanished.Brazil remains the world’s deadliest country for transgender people, with 106 murders last year, according to Transgender Europe, a network of global nonprofit organizations that tracks the data. It marked the 17th consecutive year Brazil claimed this grim distinction.
Transgender woman Andreia, left, greets fans during a Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearsal for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Andreia, left, greets fans during a Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearsal for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender women with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse for the Carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender women with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse for the Carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender dancers with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse in heels for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender dancers with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse in heels for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender women with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school wait for a rehearsal for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Bullet holes and shrapnel pockmark the wall of a roadside bomb shelter near Sderot, where the police station was stormed during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Bullet holes and shrapnel pockmark the wall of a roadside bomb shelter near Sderot, where the police station was stormed during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)The anxiety of the past year has overwhelmed her, forcing her to leave her work as an architect and interior designer and go on disability leave. Her 9-year-old son began wetting the bed. Her 11-year-old daughter refuses to go anywhere without her.
“As long as the war is still continuing, there’s no way to feel calm, to return to our lives,” she said. “We still have the hostages there. We still have nightmares. There’s no end.”Ziv Abud talks about the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Nova music festival during an interview at her house in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. Abud survived, protected by the crush of bodies above her, in a roadside bomb shelter near the Kibbutz Reim. Her boyfriend, Eliya Cohen, was taken captive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)