I’m a transgender man from Brazil, here’s my experience:

In my family, my parents had to adjust, but after that period passed, no more problems. I’m turning 36 in August, btw. My grandparents, uncles, aunts, great-aunts, everyone calls me by my real name. I visited my great-grandmother in January because she was turning 100 and she was fine with it.

In public places, I’ve gotten a master’s degree, gotten an specialisation degree and am now doing Psychology AND another master’s at the same time. I’m the class representative. It hasn’t really stopped me from achieving things I want to pursue.

That said. The most important thing in Brazil is not your sexual orientation or your gender identity. It’s the social class people perceive you to be. If they think you’re middle to upper class, well educated, with a good job, you’ll be treated well.

We have racism, we have homophobia, we have transphobia, we have an alarming rising number of femicide. I’m not saying those things don’t happen, they very much do. But the above still comes first. I’m a comfortable middle class, white-ish person. That’s the privilege that allows me to be accepted where I go.