Alexandre Siqueira I became very sensitive to the theme of gender identity after reading the book “Viagem Solitária”, which tells the story of the author João W. Nery, the first transsexual to be operated on in Brazil. He talks about the sad and confused childhood of a boy treated like a girl, from the difficult journey in adolescence until he reached the self-affirmation stage. I lived my first 7 years of life in Brazil. It was the beginning of the 80s and the end of a military dictatorship regime that lasted 21 years. In that time, various institutional acts were put in place, the suppression of individual freedoms and the establishment of a code of military criminal procedure that allowed the army and police to arrest and imprison without any right to legal protection, any "suspect". My father was a military skydiver for 15 years during that period. I drew on many childhood memories to create the relationship between the protagonist of the story and his father. Oscar is a transgender boy and is the protagonist of the story. Since Oscar is rooted and his body is still developing, his parents do not know the sex of the child. However, the father is sure that he is a boy. On the other hand, the maternal instinct makes us believe that it is a girl. The child sees his father as a hero. Influenced by several stereotypes of the male universe, Oscar wants to become like him. Throughout history, the boy demands that he be treated as a "man", expressing himself verbally. He claims the symbols of masculinity, such as the plane, the soccer ball and the male body in general - Oscar draws a mustache on his face. The forest has a very strong symbolic charge in Purpleboy. It represents patriarchal society, with clear influences from the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1970s. In this forest, the boy-wolves live, grotesque characters, fruits of a macho education. From an early age they learn from their elders to repudiate and rebuke those who are different from the "norm." Oscar is the only human character in history. Oscar's mother is a chicken, the only female character. All male secondary characters are wolves, which strengthen the bond between the military father and the forest inhabitants, creating a kind of camaraderie between them. This connection is complemented by the status quo represented by the wolf boys, who assume the influences of an oppressive regime, wearing military uniforms. The choice of giving a fabulist spirit, with anthropomorphic animals, allows to accentuate the difference between Oscar and all the others, highlighting his bestial and primary side as a metaphor of sexist society. That element disappeared in the end only in the mother-chicken, since it goes beyond conventions and accepts her son's choices, causing herself to be affected, more humane.