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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The experience of trans or transvestite women in accessing public health services
- Guilherme Sacheto Oliveira
, - Anna Maria de Oliveira Salimena ,
- Lucia Helena Garcia Penna ,
- Alanna Fernandes Paraíso ,
- Camila Messias Ramos , [ ... ],
- Zuleyce Maria Lessa Pacheco
09-19-2022
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEThe experience of trans or transvestite women in accessing public health services
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(Suppl 2):e20210713
09-19-2022DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0713
- Guilherme Sacheto Oliveira ,
- Anna Maria de Oliveira Salimena ,
- Lucia Helena Garcia Penna ,
- Alanna Fernandes Paraíso ,
- Camila Messias Ramos ,
- Marcelo da Silva Alves ,
- Zuleyce Maria Lessa Pacheco
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Objective:
to understand the meanings of being a trans or transvestite woman in the care provided by Unified Health System health professionals.
Methods:
qualitative research, guided by Heidegger’s phenomenology, with 10 trans or transvestitewomen residing and using the Unified Health System in a municipality in Minas Gerais. Fieldwork was carried out by interviews.
Results:
trans or transvestitewomen reproduce the social patterns constructed and accepted by the female, with the search for hormonization being common, and, when it is difficult to obtain a prescription, they resort to self-medication. Social name use and acceptance by health professionals promote recognition. Trans or transvestitewomen experience prejudice on a daily basis, not only by professionals, but also because of the assumption of diagnoses by other users.
Final considerations:
transphobia promotes withdrawal from health services, due to fear, shame, knowledge about professionals’ unpreparedness, triggering illness, social exclusion and violence.
Keywords:Gender IdentityHealth Services AccessibilityNursingSexual and Gender MinoritiesTranssexualitySee moreViews0
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEThe experience of trans or transvestite women in accessing public health services
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(Suppl 2):e20210713
09-19-2022DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0713
- Guilherme Sacheto Oliveira ,
- Anna Maria de Oliveira Salimena ,
- Lucia Helena Garcia Penna ,
- Alanna Fernandes Paraíso ,
- Camila Messias Ramos ,
- Marcelo da Silva Alves ,
- Zuleyce Maria Lessa Pacheco
Views0ABSTRACT
Objective:
to understand the meanings of being a trans or transvestite woman in the care provided by Unified Health System health professionals.
Methods:
qualitative research, guided by Heidegger’s phenomenology, with 10 trans or transvestitewomen residing and using the Unified Health System in a municipality in Minas Gerais. Fieldwork was carried out by interviews.
Results:
trans or transvestitewomen reproduce the social patterns constructed and accepted by the female, with the search for hormonization being common, and, when it is difficult to obtain a prescription, they resort to self-medication. Social name use and acceptance by health professionals promote recognition. Trans or transvestitewomen experience prejudice on a daily basis, not only by professionals, but also because of the assumption of diagnoses by other users.
Final considerations:
transphobia promotes withdrawal from health services, due to fear, shame, knowledge about professionals’ unpreparedness, triggering illness, social exclusion and violence.
Keywords:Gender IdentityHealth Services AccessibilityNursingSexual and Gender MinoritiesTranssexualitySee more - Guilherme Sacheto Oliveira
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RESEARCH
Social representations of sex and gender among trans people
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2017;70(6):1235-1243
01-01-2017
Abstract
RESEARCHSocial representations of sex and gender among trans people
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2017;70(6):1235-1243
01-01-2017DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0581
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Objective:
To analyze the social representations of sex and gender among transsexual people, through their life histories.
Method:
Qualitative, multicenter and descriptive research. The participants were 70 transsexuals from Brazil and Costa Rica. Data were analyzed according to the technique of Content Analysis.
Results:
Two complementary representations related to sex were identified: “Sex as a natural categorical imposition sealed and acquired (irremediably) at birth” and “Sex as an element that labels, condemns and differentiates people.” Regarding gender, a single representation was associated with “synthetic-social constructions associated with (necro/bio) power, cisnormativity and culture.”
Final considerations:
The former absolute division of gender as social construction and of sex as considered as natural must be questioned in order to analyze both concepts as an interconnected dyad. In addition, it should be recognized that this dyad presents itself as an organizational and cognitive construct, mediated by the still prevalent cispatriarchal (necro/bio) power.
Views0Abstract
RESEARCHSocial representations of sex and gender among trans people
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2017;70(6):1235-1243
01-01-2017DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0581
Views0See moreABSTRACT
Objective:
To analyze the social representations of sex and gender among transsexual people, through their life histories.
Method:
Qualitative, multicenter and descriptive research. The participants were 70 transsexuals from Brazil and Costa Rica. Data were analyzed according to the technique of Content Analysis.
Results:
Two complementary representations related to sex were identified: “Sex as a natural categorical imposition sealed and acquired (irremediably) at birth” and “Sex as an element that labels, condemns and differentiates people.” Regarding gender, a single representation was associated with “synthetic-social constructions associated with (necro/bio) power, cisnormativity and culture.”
Final considerations:
The former absolute division of gender as social construction and of sex as considered as natural must be questioned in order to analyze both concepts as an interconnected dyad. In addition, it should be recognized that this dyad presents itself as an organizational and cognitive construct, mediated by the still prevalent cispatriarchal (necro/bio) power.
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