Alexya Salvador

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Alexya Salvador (born November 18, 1980 as Alexander Salvador in Mairiporã , in the state of São Paulo , Brazil ) is a Brazilian trans woman and political activist .

Life

Salvador grew up under the name Alexander in Mairiporã. According to her own statements, she identified herself as an LGBT person for years. In her twenties she realized that she was a trans woman, but was initially only able to come out as homosexual because of her father, who at the time rejected transgender lifestyles . At the age of 28 she had sex reassignment measures carried out on her and has lived under the name Alexya Salvador ever since. She declares her gender identity as transgender and not transsexual .

At the age of 18, Salvador founded a shelter for the homeless, which she ran for two years. She studied English and Portuguese literature, education and theology. After graduation, Salvador took on a job as a teacher at a public school, which she continues to this day. According to her own statements, she decided to become a teacher because she had suffered from bullying and lack of contact persons during school time and wanted to do better as a teacher herself. In addition, she works as a freelance tailor and maintains a small studio. Salvador is also Vice President of the Brazilian Association of Homotransaffective Families (ABRAFH), an association that campaigns for the rights and understanding of homoaffective families . She herself is the first transgender person in Brazil to have adopted children. Two of her adopted children are transgender children.

From 2015 she was a pastor in training in the free-church Metropolitan Community Church . She was ordained in 2019 and is the first transgender person in Latin America in the clergy and the first trans woman to be a pastor in Brazil. In 2017, she held the first LGBT-friendly fair in Cuba.

In 2018, she ran for PSOL in parliamentary elections . Their campaigns centered on LGBT rights, education, adoption and the fight against racism.

Salvador is married and lives in Sao Paulo with her husband and three children .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eleições 2018, Candidatos, Alexya Salvador (Elections 2018, candidates, Alexya Salvador) , Gazeta Do Povo, November 13, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2019
  2. ↑ Entrevista exclusiva com Alexya Salvador: Pastora trans e pré-candidata a deputada estadual pelo PSOL (exclusive interview with Alexya Salvador: trans-pastor and pre-candidate for the PSOL state MP) , Julinho Bittencourt, Forum, July 18, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c “Eu vivo o desafio de mostrar que a minha feminilidade not é inferior à das outras mulheres”. (“I live the challenge of showing that my femininity is not inferior to other women”) Fernanda Cury, Draft, June 28, 2018, accessed November 23, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c Alexya Salvador: “It is against this God who kills that we are fighting and resisting” , Maryuri Grisales and Renato Barreto, translation: Barney Whiteoak, International Journal on Human Rights, August 2019, accessed on November 23, 2019
  5. ↑ Communist-Ruled Cuba Hosts First Transgender Religious Ceremony , NBC News, May 7, 2017, accessed November 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Salvador, Alexya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salvador, Alexander (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian trans woman and activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mairiporã , Brazil