Female University Student In Brazil Arrested And Held Without Bail After Telling “Non-Binary” Man To Leave Women’s Restroom

By Anna Slatz
A bathroom at the University of Brasília vandalized by trans activists.

A female university student in Brazil was arrested after telling a male who identifies as “non-binary” to leave the women’s restroom. According to a press release from the Military Police, the incident occurred at Darcy Ribeiro Campus of the University of Brasília (UnB) on November 11.

Reduxx has reviewed a police report confirming the shocking details of the incident. According to the report, the 19-year-old female student, who Reduxx will not identify due to concerns for her safety, was using the women’s restroom when she saw an older man enter. Uncomfortable with his presence, she confronted him and asked him to leave, telling him that he could not use the women’s facilities because he was “biologically a man.”

The confrontation escalated, and the female student said she left the bathroom to head towards security with the man in pursuit. The two continued to argue and exchange barbs throughout the courtyard, with the woman calling the man a “faggot” and a “jack,” a Brazilian slang term that effectively means “rapist.”

The “non-binary” student then called the police, claiming to be a victim of transphobic and homophobic discrimination. After police arrived, both students were taken to a nearby police station to testify. There, the man reported that he typically uses both the men’s and women’s bathrooms.

The female student was ultimately charged with “racial injury,” an offense created by Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2019 when it found that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity was covered under pre-existing anti-discrimination laws relating to race or national origin. She was held overnight without bail.

In a statement, the University of Brasília confirmed that it was following the case and offering support to both parties, but reaffirmed its commitment to “human rights, diversity and respect for coexistence within the institution.”

While the name of the male has not been made public, Reduxx can confirm his identity as Luís Inácio Pereira Barros, an undergraduate student studying Sociology and Anthropology.

After being made aware of the female student’s situation, MATRIA Brazil, a women’s rights organization, stepped in to offer her assistance.

“MATRIA is in contact with the woman who reacted to feeling intimidated by the presence of a man in the female bathroom,” a representative told Reduxx. “She is the true victim here and it’s simply unfathomable that she spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges over a situation she should have been protected from. We will keep fighting against this insanity and for the restoration of single-sex spaces for women.”

Since the news of the arrest, non-binary and transgender students at the University of Brasília have launched protests demanding that all bathrooms on campus be made gender neutral.

One campus activist group, calling itself Movimento Correnteza, boasted of “reclaiming” two restrooms in the Sociology Department by vandalizing them.

“Yesterday at UnB, we marked trans territory. At the ICC Center — above the Academic Center of Sociology, we de-binarized a bathroom by decorating the space, affirming our presence in a place from which they always tried to expel us,” the group wrote.

“Debinarizing is turning a bathroom divided between ‘male’ and ‘feminine’ into a bathroom for all students, breaking the binary logic that produces exclusion, violence and embarrassment. It’s affirming that our bodies have a right to exist and circulate fully in the university.”

This is not the first incident to occur at the University of Brasília in which a female student has been penalized for attempting to remove a male from the restroom.

As previously reported by Reduxx, footage showing a massive, bearded male chasing down a female student who had asked him to leave the women’s restroom went viral in December of 2022.

“I am not a dude! Nothing is keeping me from bringing my hand to your face. Girl, respect me! Respect me!” The man was heard yelling, using a colloquial expression for ‘slapping.’ As the confrontation escalated in the University’s cafeteria, different cameras captured the man screaming at the female student. In some extended clips, the trans-identified male student was also heard claiming it was a “crime” to call him a man, threatening the female student with a police report.

While local media anonymized the man, he was later identified as Brigitte Lúcia, a male who identifies as “non-binary” and frequently used the women’s facilities at the University of Brasília.

Due to the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that grouped “transphobia” in with “racism” as a criminal offense, Brazil has some of the most far-reaching gender ideology-based identity protections in the world.

Several women are currently facing criminal investigations for “misgendering” trans-identified males, and one feminist advocate was even able to obtain refugee status in the European Union as a result of an ongoing criminal case in which she was facing up to 25 years in prison for referring to a trans-identified male as a “man.”

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Anna Slatz
Anna Slatz
Anna is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Reduxx, with a journalistic focus on covering crime, child predators, and women's rights. She currently spends her time between Canada and Türkiye, enjoys Opera, and memes in her spare time.
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