RIO DE JANEIRO - On a late May afternoon, the Bigtboys soccer team played its first match, a friendly game on a flood-lit neighbourhood pitch bordered by chain-link fencing. But just being on the field was unusually liberating to players on a squad that bills itself as Rio de Janeiro’s first transgender men’s soccer club. For the two dozen Bigtboys players, the training pitch is also one of the few places where they feel at ease and can talk about their experiences, good and bad, without fear. The rights group Transgender Europe said 167 transgender men and women were killed last year in Brazil, making the country one of the world’s most dangerous for trans people. For players of the Bigtboys, the Supreme Court ruling isn’t a solution in itself, but a symbolic win, nevertheless.

Source: thestar June 12, 2019 14:54 UTC