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Growing up trans in Brazil can be deadly

Thamirys Nunes, founder of the NGO Minha Crianca Trans (My Transgender Child), shows a picture of her daughter Agatha. (Photo: AFP)

SAO PAULO: Wearing a pink dress that matches the bow in her hair, eight-year-old Agatha flashes a smile that belies all she has been through as a trans child growing up in Brazil.

Agatha's mother, Thamirys Nunes, says she vividly remembers the day her daughter, then almost four, asked the question that has changed both of their lives.

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