Violência e saúde: Consequências dos crimes de ódio homotransfóbicos em Portugal

Violence against sexual and gender diversity is a present reality worldwide reaching all social subjects independent of their Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expressions and/or Sexual Characteristics – OIEC. This still poorly investigated phenomenon has advanced in recent years with the growth of hate discourse against all social subjects threatening and/or rupturing with heteronormativity in society, causing numerous consequences and aggravates the health of their direct and indirect victims. This paper focuses on the analysis of the consequences of homotransphobic violences against sexual and gender diversity in Portugal, through the study of officials of the officials in the Public Safety Forces and the Judiciary Police Office, among the PJ, among the years 2015 and 2020. The study in question reviews 29 reports/news records, documents with records of complaints of Criminal Criminal Investigation Departments Surveys – DIAPs across national territory. The investigation stands out as the first mapping of official hate crime cases with homophobic and/or transphobic motivations in Portugal. It consists of a descriptive and documentary study of qualitative character using content analysis, in the embodiment of thematic categorization of Bardin (2016). Major results show that most homotransphobic hate crimes are cyber-crimes and cyberbullying with unknown, disknowledge and underreported authorships, featuring diverse types and natures of violence with serious consequences of physical, psychological, economic and social character, directly compromising health and the welfare of their victims.