Seven out of ten transgender people have faced food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. For one-fifth of the minority group, the situation was severe, since they were unable to eat all the meals of the day, nor how to buy food, going hungry.
This is what proves a study by researchers from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), published today (10), in the scientific journal Plos One.
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As a way of investigating the scenario, the team of scientists analyzed experience reports from 109 people, using a questionnaire. The participants, who responded voluntarily, were from all regions of the country, the majority being black.
The criterion applied to define the state of food insecurity was that of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which understands contexts in which access to food is under threat. This means insufficient amounts of food, fear of running out of food and a lack of stability in supply. Also included in the classification is the inadequacy of available food, from a cultural and/or nutritional point of view.
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Sávio Marcelino Gomes, main author of the article, nutritionist and professor at UFPB, points out that the trans community is one of the most vulnerable. “Brazil, although we have some advances in health, such as the transsexualization process and there is a national health policy for the LGBTQIA + population, in general, is also the country that kills the most trans people in the world” , he assures.
The researcher comments that, by not being able to enter the job market, due to discrimination, called, in this case, transphobia, trans people end up in a circumstance of susceptibility regarding food, a layer that adds to that of fragility through violence. Gomes also criticizes the data on the trans population currently available in Brazil.
“As they suffer job rejections, they suffer violence within the labor market, the education sector and also in the health care area, when they try to access primary care, these people also experience stigma, and all that together, puts these people in a social position of vulnerability to the worst evils that our society has. And hunger is one of them, although we do not (have) this result nationally, because our surveys, for a long time, also do not show this population. It is a population that is made invisible”, says Gomes, who has a doctor in public health.
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