english: She lived in Santos during the 1990s when the AIDS epidemic was hitting Brazil. She wrote that at the time, "the life expectancy of transvestigeneres" — a mash-up of the words "transgender" and "transvestite" in Portuguese — "was 25 years."
non_english: Έγραψε ότι εκείνη τη στιγμή, "το προσδόκιμο ζωής των transvestigeneres" — μία μίξη των λέξεων "τρανσέξουαλ" και "τραβεστί" στα πορτογαλικά — "ήταν τα 25 έτη."