On May 29, 2026, representatives of the Dara staff that work directly with the families at Dara, participated in an event called, Beyond Pink and Blue: the place of gender in the care of children and adolescents, organized by the Rio de Janeiro Center for the Defense of Children and Adolescent Rights.
The event on May 18 was part of the Fazer Bonito Campaign, an national awareness and mobilization campaign against abuse and sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
Julia Alvarenga, psychologist at Dara and post-doctoral researcher at Fiocruz that works with children and adolescents, gender issues and public policies.
At the event, a diversified group of people was present. The event was an opportunity for clarification, reflections, a history of the issue and created a forum for exchanges on the intersection of gender issues and child and adolescent care.
There urgency in addressing these issues is paramount. The invisibility of trans childhoods and trans adolescences, the absence of in public policies, the increase in violence against trans children and adolescents, the reproductions of gender violence in institutions for children and adolescents, creates an imperative to strengthen care networks, promote training of professionals and elaboration of policies that are more sensitive to gender diversity in childhood and adolescence.
