Clubs
| Period | Club | Country | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | Esmoriz |  Portugal | [7] |
| 2014 | JTV Dero Zele-Berlare |  Belgium | [7] |
| 2017 | Golem Palmi |  Italy | [7] |
| 2017- | Vôlei Bauru |  Brazil | [3] |
| Tifanny Abreu | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | Brazillian |
| Born | Rodrigo Pereira de Abreu [1] [2] October 29, 1984 |
| Hometown | Goiás, Brazil |
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) [2] |
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) [2] |
Tifanny Abreu (born October 29, 1984) [2] is a Brazilian volleyball player. She was the first trans woman to play in the Brazilian Women's Volleyball Superliga. [3]
Before playing in women's championships, she competed as a man for Superliga A and B in Brazil, and other championships in the leagues of Indonesia, Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. While in JTV Dero Zele-Berlare, Abreu decided to complete her gender transition. In 2017, she received permission from the International Volleyball Federation to compete in women's leagues. [3]
In 2018, Abreu ran as a candidate for the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. [4]
In June 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named her among the fifty heroes "leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people". [5] [6]
| Period | Club | Country | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | Esmoriz | Portugal | [7] |
| 2014 | JTV Dero Zele-Berlare | Belgium | [7] |
| 2017 | Golem Palmi | Italy | [7] |
| 2017- | Vôlei Bauru | Brazil | [3] |
She is currently married to football player Victor Emmanoel Metz. [8]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Brazil rank among the highest in the world. Same-sex couples in Brazil have enjoyed the same rights guaranteed to heterosexual ones since 16 May 2013, including marriage and adoption. On June 13, 2019, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime akin to racism.
The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing, drag, and pathologizing connotations. In Spain, the term was used in a similar way during the Franco era, but it was replaced with the advent of the medical model of transsexuality in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in order to rule out negative stereotypes. The arrival of these concepts occurred later in Latin America than in Europe, so the concept of travesti lasted, with various connotations.
Walewska Moreira de Oliveira was a Brazilian volleyball player in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She won a bronze medal with the women's national team in Sydney, Australia, and a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Walewska also claimed the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.
Caroline de Oliveira Saad Gattaz, better known as Carol Gattaz, is a volleyball player from Brazil. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the Women's tournament, winning a silver medal. Gattaz won the World Grand Prix three times in a row.
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Minas Tênis Clube is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units, Minas Country and Minas Tênis Náutico Clube. It also has its own indoor arena, named Juscelino Kubitschek Arena, which is a part of the Minas I complex.
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Ana Beatriz Moser is a Brazilian former volleyball player and three-time Olympian. She helped make the Brazilian women's national volleyball team a dominant force in the 1990s. She was an outside hitter.
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Simone Nassar Tebet is a Brazilian academic, lawyer, and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Planning and Budget since 5 January 2023. She previously was Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul from 2015 to 2023, Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2011 to 2014, and mayor of Três Lagoas from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), of which she was the leader in the Senate from 2018 to 2019, Tebet was the MDB candidate for president in the 2022 Brazilian general election, placing third with 4.16% of the vote. After endorsing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the second round, Tebet was appointed Minister of Planning.
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Valentina Sampaio is a Brazilian model and actress. She became Victoria's Secret's first openly transgender model in August 2019, and became the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue's first openly transgender model in 2020.
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Linda Brasil Azevedo Santos is a teacher, LGBT rights activist, and politician who became the first trans woman elected to a parliamentary position in the state of Sergipe, Brazil. She was elected in 2020 as a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party.
Dodi Tavares Borges Leal is an academic, performer and trans rights activist who, is a professor in performing arts at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) and an associate researcher at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). Her 2018 appointment at UFSB meant that she was the first transgender arts professor to take up a permanent employment in public higher education in the world.
Marina Machete Reis is a Portuguese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Portugal 2023. Machete is the first Portuguese transgender woman to participate in the Miss Universe contest. She represented Portugal at the Miss Universe 2023 pageant in El Salvador and finished as a top 20 semifinalist, becoming the first trans woman to place.
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