May 21, 2023 12:00 p.m
The decree, which will regulate the issuance of the identity document with the changes requested by the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, is scheduled to be published at the end of June. The goal is to encourage more citizenship and respect
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The Brazilian government will change the National Identity Card (Cin) to make it “more inclusive and representative”. The new document no longer distinguishes between company names and register names; From now on, it only contains the name that the person uses in the issuance document. In addition, the ID card is printed without the gender field. The decree, which will regulate the issuance of the identity document with the changes requested by the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, is scheduled to be published at the end of June. The goal is to promote more citizenship and respect for LGBT people.
The changes to the national ID card were requested by the Department of Human Rights and Citizenship with the aim of promoting more citizenship and respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (Lgbtqia+) people, and they are part of that commitment of the government for a public policy aimed at these citizens.
The number of same-sex marriages has quadrupled in the last 10 years In Brazil, the number of same-sex marriages has quadrupled in the last decade, according to data from the National Association of Land Records of Individuals (Arpen-BR). In 2013, the National Judicial Council began allowing this type of marriage in registry offices, and since then the number of marriages has quadrupled, reaching 12,897 in 2022, compared to 3,700 in 2013. The nearly 13,000 marriages represented only 0.02% of the total marriages last year.
For years, the legal recognition of homosexual partnerships has been one of the main hallmarks of the LGBT movement, which organizes the annual gay pride parade in Sao Paulo, which is considered the largest in the world.
In the last ten years, 73,640 same-sex partnerships have been registered, 56% of them between female couples. The Brazilian state with the highest number of marriages is São Paulo (the country’s most populous) with 30,000, which is 38.9%, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 8.6%.
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