Transexualidades: experiências possíveis de constituição subjetiva em relação ao gênero

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Jesús, Bento Manoel de
• Orientador(a): Gonçalves, Eliane
• Banca de defesa: Gonçalves, Eliane, Borges, Lenise Santana, Avelar, Rezende Bruno de, Braz, Camilo Albuquerque de, Amaral, Marcela Carvalho Martins
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia (FCS)
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais - FCS (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Transexualidades; Gênero; Identidade de gênero; Performatividade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Transsexualities; Gender; Gender identity; Performativity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8197

This is a qualitative research that aimed to problematize about gender identity in transsexuality experiences, considering these experiences as possibilities of gender identifications. Based on the conception that identities are constructed, and that the construction of identity is an intrinsic part of the process of subjectivation, the research focused on some specific points, such as the discussions about identity, body and gender, as well as the material and social resources involved in the Processo Transexualizador (Sexual Reassignment Process), in which these themes allow us to think about the possibilities and the limitations of the process of construction of the gender identities in transsexuality experiences. According to the research, the emergence of transsexualities is linked to the way of life in cities, a context of technological development and favorable to the coexistence between different identities, but at the same time produces the most diverse conditions of inequality, stigmatization and social exclusion. In this paradoxical situation, transsexualities are conceived from a prism of naturalness of the gender, to a perspective that considers gender as a historical and cultural construction. In this way, different strands of know-power affect transsexualities, both those that consider such experiences as pathology, as is the case of medical knowledge, and those that conceive them as possible forms of gender identifications, such as the theory of performativity by Judith Butler. As for the Processo Transexualizador, it is a resource offered by the Brazilian public health service, which is based on the principles of universality, integrality and equity in care. However, the implementation of this resource is still guided by the notion of a diagnosis of transsexuality, Gender Dysphoria. In summary, this study sought to reflect on the experiences of transsexuality, to talk about gender, to discuss these issues in relation to some fields of know-power, trying to argue that, rather than something exotic, deviant or pathological, transsexualities, as well as cissexual experiences, are possibilities of subjective constitution in relation to gender, that is, they are forms of gender identity.