A father and son from Brazil have shared their gender transition story online as they become mother and daughter
Raphael and Gustavo Batista, 10, from Sao Paolo, Brazil, were born with female biological characteristics but now both identify as male.
Gustavo was the first to start his transition at the age of four which gave Raphael the ‘strength and courage’ to also face the transition.
Raphael, 38, stopped identifying as female last year and asked to be referred to as male. In September, Raphael posted a clip on Instagram in which he discussed gender identity.
The clip was captioned, translated from Portuguese: ‘If I have dysphoria in my body? And the answer is yes.’
Asked if Gustavo influenced him, Raphael told G1: ‘It didn’t have any influence, but he [Gustavo] gave me strength and courage to face [the transition].’
The pair share their inspiring story with their nearly 25,000 Instagram followers and many are supporting them in their journey.
The father and son have previously spoken out against people using their ‘dead names’ – the names they went by when they identified as women.
‘Even though it is our right to have the social name respected in practice, respect rarely happens in fact,’ the caption reads as translated into English.
Gustavo, who is a student, also works as an actor and has played both transgender and cisgender characters in films.
Gustavo is treated at the Transdisciplinary Outpatient Clinic for Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit at the Children’s Institute of the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo.
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