Yes, I don't see anything but right-wing coverage of this, so I feel you on that.

Either way, that the police might pursue hate speech charges against Cêpa seems at least plausible, though it's not clear to me that prison time is common for hate speech in Brazil.

Either way, it won't matter once responsible journalism covers the facts in a reasonable manner, the anti-trans movement is finding this useful in the meantime, and plenty of people will accept right-wing sources as legitimate (esp. the ones most likely to be sympathetic to anti-trans views).

What I find somewhat amusing is that all the attention in this case proves how exceptional it is - Jordan Peterson became famous claiming he would go to prison for mispronouning students and other cases like this would be happening in Canada if they included gender identity as a protected characteristic in anti-discrimination laws, and yet as far as I know that is not how that law worked and there have been no cases of misgendering resulting in prison:

Does the bill legislate the use of certain language? And could someone go to jail for using the wrong pronoun?

In the Criminal Code, which does not reference pronouns, Cossman says misusing pronouns alone would not constitute a criminal act.

“The misuse of gender pronouns, without more, cannot rise to the level of a crime,” she says. “It cannot rise to the level of advocating genocide, inciting hatred, hate speech or hate crimes … (it) simply cannot meet the threshold.”

Another suspicious aspect of the right-wing coverage is that they don't detail what Cêpa is receiving 5 counts of hate speech for, The European Conservative just says this:

In a video post, Cêpa expressed her disappointment, saying she was “disappointed to hear that the most voted-for woman in São Paulo—later found out that it was in the entire country—was a man.”

Hilton filed a police complaint, triggering a criminal investigation. By mid-2022, Cêpa had been charged with five counts of “social racism.”

I am suspicious that this statement alone arises to the level of hate speech, let alone 5 separate counts of hate speech crimes as they are claiming. Something doesn't add up here, there are discrepancies in both severity and number, so it would be nice to have a more full picture of what Cêpa said and what she is being charged with.

EDIT: sometimes browsers will auto-translate pages for you, btw - in case you want to pursue it further, though I understand if that's more work than it's worth (and who knows if Portuguese-language coverage is any more balanced, I would expect mostly right-wing coverage still).