Brazilian state deputy Fabiana Bolsonaro delivered a shocking, and now viral, speech in the São Paulo Legislative Assembly this week, applying dark makeup to her face and arms in protest against the appointment of trans lawmaker Erika Hilton to head a women’s rights committee.
In the clip, the politician explains that she is using the blackface demonstration to make a simple point about biological reality and lived experience.
“I am a white woman. I’ve had the privileges of a white person my whole life,” Bolsonaro said. “Now, at 32, I decide to paint myself, to disguise myself as a black person… and I ask you: did I become black? Do I feel the pain that black people have suffered? No.”
Bolsonaro continued, “It doesn’t matter if I paint myself — I don’t know what you went through. That’s why I cannot lead that agenda… because I am not black.”
The firebrand politician then drew a direct parallel to gender ideology.
“I am painted black on the outside. I identify as black. So why can’t I preside over the anti-racism commission? Why can’t I take care of this agenda? Because I am not black,” she stated, criticizing instances where biological men identifying as women are awarded spots or titles meant for actual women.
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NEW: Brazilian politician Fabiana Bolsonaro performs blackface to show trans people that putting dark foundation on her face doesn’t make her black, just like changing your body doesn’t make you a different gender.
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The protest targeted Erika Hilton, a biological male who identifies as a woman and serves as a federal deputy for the far-left PSOL party.
Left-wing politicians and activists have predictably erupted in outrage, filing ethics complaints and demanding Bolsonaro’s expulsion from the assembly for “racism and transphobia.”
Despite the outrage, Bolsonaro’s unapologetic stand has ignited a fresh round of debate in Brazil and around the world about how painting your skin doesn’t change your race, so why shouldn’t the same logic apply to gender?
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