To celebrate the LGBTQIA+ Pride month, Fiotec promoted, on June 29th, the lecture "Trans People's Experience and Employability", with the participation of Isabella De Ávila, a trans woman specialist in social inclusion in the labor market. Corroborating the internal values and aiming to encourage an environment of equality and diversity, the event addressed themes of gender and identity, and the labor market and LGBTQIA+ people. The idea was to promote reflection, so that individual and collective actions are analyzed in a way that is aligned with the best social practices.

Isabella began the event by talking about the use of correct terminology to refer to this group, contextualizing that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, any type of sexual orientation or gender identity, other than hetero-cis, was treated as a psychic illness. For this reason, many everyday nomenclatures are still prejudiced, such as the word "transvestite", which, according to her, is in a process of "re-signification", affirming that the difference between "transsexual" and "transvestite" is merely political.

The differences between gender and identity were also explained, clarifying that visual expression is not directly linked to gender identity. Isabella says that when a stereotype is created related to an individual's sexual identity or orientation, it is common to think that everyone will be the same.

Isabella brought the numbers that involve this population, in which Brazil is the leader in transsexual people deaths. Besides, in the country, the life expectancy for a trans person is only 35 years, while for cisgender people, 75.5 years. "We live on the margins of a much greater violence than other people”, she said.

About employability, he said that 90% of transsexual people have needed, at some point in their lives, to prostitute themselves to guarantee an income, "we need to understand that prostitution cannot be the only option, and insert these people in the job market. She explained that when an LGBTQIA+ worker is denied, it impacts the building of a more diverse and equal economy. Because it is a social construct, she also called attention to the academic difficulty that this group has to face.

At the end, the speaker promoted some reflections in the questions form, for interaction among the participants. Karolayne Carvalho, a young apprentice at Fiotec, says she found the initiative necessary for the present day, encouraging a fairer workday. "I, as a lesbian woman, felt respected. We are in the LGBTQIA+ visibility month and actions like this are fundamental to open the employees' minds", she said.