Brazil’s first transgender pastor: ‘All humans have flaws, being trans isn’t one of them’

In a country with shocking brutality against LGBTQ+ people, Alexya Salvador is using her faith to help others like her

Desperate calls from LGBTQ+ youths contemplating suicide or from their parents after they have made an attempt on their lives often punctuate Alexya Salvador's day. When they do, she drops everything to talk.

As a transgender woman, she recognises the anguish in their voices. I feel their pain in my body because I went through this," she says. My family went through this."