The documentary "De Zé a Kátia", by Karla Holanda, began to be filmed in Piauí, which shows the life of the first transvestite elected to public office in Brazil. Kátia Tapety is 61 years old and was three times councilor of Colônia de Piauí, 300 km from Teresina, and vice-mayor from 2004 to 2008.
From an early age, Kátia accompanied several people to resolve legal or health problems, whether scheduling and taking patients for exams and surgeries, sending birth and baptism records, or officiating weddings or separations.
“The northeast region is associated with ideas of misery, hunger, ignorance and subservience, in short, notions of widespread backwardness. However, contrary to these expectations, forms of experiences that represent advanced achievements in relation to human and sexual rights emerge in this scenario, which is not homogeneous. 'De Zé a Kátia' addresses precisely one of these experiences”, reveals the director, Karla Holanda.
Today, after separating from her husband with whom she had a 22-year relationship, Kátia raises her two adopted children and maintains a bar next to her house famous for free-range chicken.
"I could, in 1970, young as I was, have gone to São Paulo, to prostitute myself, as many did. I decided to stay in the backlands, helping those people who had nothing", Kátia declared at the time to the newspaper "Correio Brasiliense" .
