Luiza Coppieters (born 6 July 1979) is a Brazilian professor of philosophy, municipal politician, LGBTQ+ activist, and feminist. She is affiliated with the Socialism and Liberty Party (), for which she ran for city councilor in São Paulo in 2016, and she became an alternate councilor. She is a trans woman, and was considered one of the ten most influential LGBTQ+ personalities in São Paulo in 2016. She was one of 84 trans candidates who ran for office in the 2016 municipal elections.
She holds a 2004 degree in philosophy from the University of São Paulo.
Coppieters was fired from the private school where she taught in June 2015, a few months after publicly coming out as transgender in November 2014. Coppieters was a member of the municipal council for LGBT policies in the city of São Paulo.
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