内容摘要：Security staff stand in front of the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages factory in Thiruvallur district, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Security staff stand in front of the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages factory in Thiruvallur district, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Transgender woman Alessandra Salazary gets help from her boyfriend with her dress before hosting a Carnival contest show in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia IzquierdoTransgender women Alessandra Salazary, left, and Ariela hug before a Carnival contest in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Transgender women Alessandra Salazary, left, and Ariela hug before a Carnival contest in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Vanessa Alves, 60, practices before the start of a samba class for the Carnival parade at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Vanessa Alves, 60, practices before the start of a samba class for the Carnival parade at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

The parade will feature other notable figures, including Brazil’s first trans lawmakers, Duda Salabert and Erika Hilton; Rio state lawmaker Dani Balbi and Bruna Benevides, who heads Brazil’s trans rights group Antra. Benevides identifies as “travesti,” a term referring to a specific Latin American identity that activists say is claimed by people assigned the male gender at birth, but who experience the female gender and should be treated as such. She and Tuiuti say Manicongo was likewise a travesti.The specter of violence Manicongo faced five centuries ago hasn’t vanished.

Brazil remains the world’s deadliest country for transgender people, with 106 murders last year, according to Transgender Europe, a network of global nonprofit organizations that tracks the data. It marked the 17th consecutive year Brazil claimed this grim distinction.

Transgender woman Andreia, left, greets fans during a Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearsal for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)About 12 miles (19 kilometers) away at Baker High School in Baker, Coach James Dartez has fewer resources but the same attitude about safety.

The district lacks funding for an athletic trainer and Dartez relies on a table full of water coolers to help players beat the heat. Since taking over as coach last year, Dartez began using a wet-bulb globe temperature, instituting regular water breaks and says that if a player “tells me that he’s not feeling well, he’s lightheaded, we send him straight inside.”“I love football and I know what football has done for me, but I love my kids way more than this game,” Dartez, speaking on a day when lighting postponed practice, said. “I will never compromise the health and safety of my one of my players.”

Members of the Baker High football team wait out a weather delay at practice in Baker, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Members of the Baker High football team wait out a weather delay at practice in Baker, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)