The Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (ESMAT) is open for registrations until April 8th for the course on “Humanizing Care for LGBTQIAPN+ People: Challenges for the Judiciary”. The training will take place between April 25th and May 19th, virtually, and it aims to qualify judges and civil servers of the Judiciary of the state of Tocantins to offer a more humanized, inclusive and sensitive service to the specificities of the LGBTQIAPN+ population.
The course is coordinated by Judge Rosa Maria Rodrigues Gazire Rossi and it has fifty places, ten for judges and forty for civil servers. If the places for judges are not filled, they can be allocated to civil servers.
Interested parties can sign up by clicking here.
Why is the course essential?
Humanized service in the judiciary is fundamental to guarantee equal access to justice, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. However, challenges persist, such as institutional barriers, lack of adequate reception and, in some cases, direct or indirect discrimination. In this way, the training aims to enable professionals to provide a respectful, inclusive service in line with human rights principles.
Fundamental concepts
- Gender: refers to the social roles assigned to men and women throughout history, being a social construction and not determined exclusively by biological factors.
- Gender Identity: refers to how a person perceives and identifies himself/herself in relation to their gender. The main identities include:
Cisgender: people whose gender identity corresponds to the sex assigned at birth; Transgender: individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth; Non-binary: people who do not identify exclusively as male or female.
- Sexual Orientation: refers to the affective and/or sexual attraction of one person to another, and it can include heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, among others.
- Biological Sex: defined based on physical, genetic and hormonal characteristics, and it can be classified as female, male or intersex.
- Gender Expression: involves the way in which a person manifests their gender identity through appearance, dress and behavior.
The acronym LGBTQIAPN+ and its representations
The acronym LGBTQIAPN+ encompasses different identities and orientations, including:
- Lesbians: women who feel emotional and/or sexual attraction for other women.
- Gays: men who feel emotional and/or sexual attraction for other men.
- Bisexuals: individuals who are attracted to people of more than one gender.
- Transgender, Transsexual and Transvestite: people whose gender identity does not correspond to the sex assigned at birth.
- Queer: a term that covers those who do not identify with traditional gender and sexuality norms.
- Intersexuals: people whose biological characteristics do not fit the typical definitions of male or female.
- Asexuals: people who have a total or partial absence of sexual attraction to other people.
- Pansexuals: individuals who are attracted to people regardless of their gender identity.
- Non-binary: those whose gender identity does not fit the male-female binary model.
- +: represents the inclusion of other identities and orientations that do not fit into the previous definitions.
If you have any questions, you can find more information in the Public Notice and/or by e-mailing
