Roberta Close is one of the most striking Brazilian beauties and she might be a mother very soon, but she still is unable to get Brazilian documents that will classify her as a woman. For eight years she has been trying to change the name on her ID, which says Luís Roberto Gambine Moreira. Her case came to the Supreme Court last February, but Flávio Giron, the federal vice-prosecutor, opposed the change, arguing that "the expert exams carried out have concluded for the male sexuality of the petitioner."
La Close, who lives in Switzerland, she is recognized as a woman there, with her Swiss husband Ronald Grana- cher, is the most famous Brazilian transsexual. She underwent an operation to extirpate her penis in 1989. Recently Roberta declared, "I am Brazil's happiest woman because, at last, I could reunite my body to my soul which has always been deeply feminine." In Augut 1996, she posed for very revealing pictures to the lenses of photographer Tripoli in an essay he made on her for Sexy magaz. In February she repeated the dose with the same publication. In Brazil for Carnaval, she didn't want to comment on the prosecutor's decision, but some voices stood up for her. Among them was that of writer and Academy "immortal" João Ubaldo Ribeiro. " Hypocrisy, too much hypocrisy, this business of denying Roberta Close the right of being a woman, when she already is patently a woman, only forced to carry a masculine name," he wrote in his column in the weekly Manchete magazine. " Let's give the girl the new ID card, let's stop being pharisees. "As for being a mother, Roberta wants a girl, she intends to use her own semen.Comments and suggestions e-mail me.
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