João W. Nery (12 February 1950 – 26 October 2018), was a Brazilian writer,
psychologist
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, and
LGBT
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activist. He was the first
transgender
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man to have undergone sex-change surgery in Brazil;
Dr. Roberto Farina performed the surgery in 1977.
Biography
Nery became an
LGBT
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rights activist, especially of the trans population. A bill by congressman
Jean Wyllys
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and congresswoman
Erika Kokay
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Personal life
Kokay was born to ...
bears his name. Based on the Argentine Identity and Gender Law, the project guarantees the right to recognize the gender identity of all transgender people in
Brazil
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, without the need for judicial authorization, medical or psychological reports, surgery or hormone treatment.
In August 2017, Nery was discovered to have a lung cancer. Smoking since he was 15 years old, he underwent chemotherapy. In September 2018, Nery revealed on social networks that cancer had hit the brain; he died in
Niteroi, on 26 October 2018, aged 68.
Bibliography
* ''Erro de pessoa: Joana ou João?'', Rio de Janeiro, Editora Record, 1984.
* ''Viagem solitária: memórias de um transexual 30 anos depois'', São Paulo, Leya Brasil, 2012.
* ''Vidas trans: a coragem de existir'' (together with
Amara Moira,
Márcia Rocha, and
T. Brant), Bauru, Leya Brasil, 2017.
** ''Vidas Trans: A luta de transgêneros brasileiros em busca de seu espaço social''. Astral Cultural. 2022. New Edition.
* ''Velhice transviada: Memórias e reflexões'', Objetiva, 2019. Posthumous publication.
Further reading
* Jesus, Dánie Marcelo de; Carbonieri, Divanize; Nigro, Claudia M.C. (2017). Estudos sobre gênero: identidades, discurso e educação – homenagem a João W. Nery.
.l. Pontes. 252 pp. .
* Gonçalves Jr., Sara W. P. (2017) Invisíveis. In:Estudos sobre gênero: identidades, discurso e educação – homenagem a João W. Nery. Editora Pontes. 2017 .
References
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1950 births
2018 deaths
Brazilian LGBT rights activists
Brazilian LGBT novelists
Brazilian LGBT journalists
20th-century Brazilian novelists
20th-century Brazilian male writers
Brazilian male novelists
Brazilian male journalists
Transgender male writers
Transgender novelists
Transgender journalists
21st-century Brazilian male writers
Brazilian transgender writers
Brazilian transgender men
20th-century Brazilian LGBT people
20th-century Brazilian writers
21st-century Brazilian LGBT people