President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (11) that the federal government will change the passport application form to only acknowledge "mother" and "father."
At a breakfast attended by evangelical politicians, he stated that in the fields related to the applicant's family, the words "parent 1" and "parent 2" will be replaced by "father" and "mother."
In 2017, the Federal Police adopted the term "parent" to contemplate new family formations, such as those composed by homoaffective couples.
"Our Itamaraty Palace here, which is headed by Ambassador Ernesto Araújo, in our passport, we are putting an end to the story of genitor 1 and genitor 2, we are putting the terms father and mother," he said.
At the same meeting, the president said that in his candidature for re-election at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Brazil will adopt an agenda based on the "exclusion of gender mentions."
"We are disputing in the UN our candidacy for the re-election to the Council of Rights, and our agenda is based on the strengthening of the family structures and the exclusion of gender," Bolsonaro said.
Recently, Brazilian diplomats have received official instructions to reiterate "the Brazilian government's understanding that the word gender means biological sex."
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon