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Transgender people are a socially discriminated group, which affects other spheres of life, such as work. This has a negative impact on their social, family and community relationships, and on their emotional and motivational well-being. This study analyses the social interventions developed in Portugal with trans people in order to learn about professional processes, present problems and establish future proposals. For this purpose, a qualitative approach, a descriptive design and semi)structured interviews are used for data collection, using a purposive sampling. The sample was composed of three professionals from specialized entities. The results indicate that public-facing work is the one that generates the most discrimination, with trans women standing out for manifesting a lower level of cispassing. For this and other problems, business awareness is highlighted as one of the main proposals, together with the development of equality plans and the implementation of anti-discrimination clauses as employment measures with a great impact on labor market insertion. The employment problems faced by transgender people are a global problem present at multiple levels, which challenges social intervention and urges it to respond to the demands expressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our infant-juvenile population has been exposed to situations in the last decade that have compromised their physical, mental, emotional health, learning ability, nutritional needs, and even their sense of self. We are talking about problems in terms of their education, food/nutrition, health, and recognition of gender identity. In this last topic, we will focus on this analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to identify, analyze, and integrate findings from studies that examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of transgender and transvestite individuals. An integrative literature review was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines. A systematic search of primary studies was conducted across three databases: PubMed/MEDLINE, LILACS, and PsycINFO. Eight studies that met the inclusion criteria were included. Thematic analysis of the material generated six thematic categories. The studies analyzed pointed out that the situation of social vulnerability faced by trans people in their daily lives intensified during the pandemic. The need for physical distancing led to increased symptoms of anxiety and depression, worsening economic conditions, and difficulties in accessing procedures and medications that make up the gender affirmation process, in addition to exacerbating family conflicts and manifestations of transphobia. Therefore, there is a need to implement public policies and a social protection network to reduce the vulnerability and psychosocial suffering of the transgender and transvestite community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text explores the fit of the theoretical theses of gender identity in the constitutional framework, understood as both the Spanish legal-positive framework and that of Western liberal democracies, established after World War II. To this end, the contribution has been divided into three sections. In the first place, an attempt is made to clear up the key concepts that are going to be handled throughout the article, notably four: human dignity, vulnerability, sex/gender and sexual identity/gender identity. Secondly, it offers a review of the main normative and jurisprudential milestones that have had to respond to the gender identity challenge, an issue with some growth in importance in the most recent constitutional jurisprudence, in its «gender perspective» aspect. Thirdly, the reader is offered some arguments that could act as a counterweight to the worst drifts manifested by the gender identity thesis. Finally, some conclusions are drawn around an in-depth reflection on the findings resulting from the investigation, submitted, of course, to the best doctrinal opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pathologization of transsexuality and the rhetoric of the "wrong body" associated with it, within the framework of a dichotomous and hierarchicalsex / gendersystem, have strongly conditioned the way in which people who identify as trans (transsexual, transgender) think about themselves and guide their bodily practices and their sexualities. However, despite the normative restrictions of the surgical model of transsexuality continue to mark the lives of many young transgender people, when we approach their sex-affective narratives, emancipatory ways of inhabiting sexuality, corporality and desire emerge. These are experiences that call into question the inevitability of dysphoria; that challenge the hegemonic patterns of construction of (hetero)sexuality and gender, especially of masculinity; and that deny the presumption of undesirability that is often attributed to trans bodies. The discourses that are analyzed in this article come from interviews with young transgender people in the framework of an ethnographic research carried out in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper/essay, the representations of trans people in Spanish series both on television and on streaming platforms will be analyzed, paying special attention to the new forms of masculinities, referred to as dissidents. From the pioneer Farmacia de Guardia to much more recent series such as Vis a Vis or Todo lo otro, there will be an analysis of the main characteristics of the trans characters (age, sex, social class, etc.), the reactions that they spark around them (acceptance, rejection, ignorance), as well as the story offered about transsexuality (if it is seen as a pathology, if there is a desire to change one’s physical appearance through hormones and/ or surgery, if the conception of having been born in the wrong body persists, etc.). It will be seen how this representation intersects and questions hegemonic masculinity. Finally, it will be observed how transsexuality is becoming progressively more visible in Spanish series, helping its normalization through different characters who bring this reality closer to the public, although not always in an inclusive way [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes the framework of international law and comparative law around the recognition of self-determination, with special attention to the criteria established by the jurisprudence of the ECHR, and a critical analysis of the Spanish legal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To analyze the implementation of the transsexualization process in the State of Ceará, contexts, conditions and challenges. This is a qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. Five strategic subjects (managers and professionals) were chosen with individual depth techniques. The transsexualization process in the State of Ceará was implemented according to the demand of the transgender population, initially general questions related to sexuality. The challenges point to a lack of human and financial resources, vulnerabilities, lack of access and accessibility to health services, ignorance of the transgender population and prejudice in general. The advances in legitimizing the transsexualization process are notorious, but the idea of transsexuality as a pathology and the insertion of the clinic in the facilities of a chiatric hospital can sustain the stigmatization of Trans people. The transsexualization process is guaranteed by public policies in Ceará, but it is a full implementation of actions that are still limited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the following pages, an analysis is made of the statements concerning affirmative therapy on trans people appearing in the book "Nadie nace en un cuerpo equivocado: Éxito y miseria de la identidad de género" [Nobody is born in the wrong body: the success and misery of gender identity] (Errasti & Pérez, 2022). To this end, studies are provided that refute the information presented in this manual on issues such as ROGD, detransitions, and the alleged laxity of the affirmative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transsexuality has found a place in both the Spanish collective mindset and media. To analyze the portrayal of this type of sexual diversity in the media, we evaluated its presence in cybermedia, its preeminence in journalistic texts, and the issues addressed in its media coverage. A quantitative content analysis (N = 24,363) of the journalistic texts published during the period 2000–2020 by 13 generalist Spanish cybermedia was carried out, using both rule-based classification and unsupervised topic modeling. The results highlight an increase in journalistic texts about transsexuality, in which three inflection points and four phases or distribution changes can be distinguished. The preeminence of this topic within the analyzed pieces has also increased, and the issues covered have diversified over the years. Overall, these data confirm the newsworthiness that this type of sexual diversity achieved throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Media attention especially highlights the newsworthiness of aspects such as conflict, the protagonist’s notoriety, or periodicity through anniversary journalism. Likewise, the results also suggest that the media offer an increasingly complex portrayal that favors both the visibility and the understanding of the different dimensions and characteristics that intersect in these realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trans minors claim for themselves the right to a "self-perceived" gender identity [SCJN 2019] in terms of legal recognition and free development of their personality, exempt from pathologization by medical science and with the support of social disciplines such as law and anthropology. Hence, the objective of this communication is to provide an overview of the last five years in which trans children in Mexico have gained visibility from the paradigmatic cases and joint legislative work with organized civil society. In order to position the issue at the debate table on the biomedical and legal construction of transsexuality in childhood, since it presents edges that are the object of legal-anthropological analysis that contribute to understand the generation of new paradigms in human rights and reflect about its construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transsexualism and transgenderism are not current phenomena, they have existed for a long time in multiple cultures. The changes that the term transsexualism has undergone and the interest of the scientific community that is evidenced in the production of articles in recent decades, are a reflection of the importance of the trans issue that has emerged as a matter of growing interest and that is being studied from different perspectives. The objective of this study is to determine if the difficulties faced by trans people when making the request for sex reassignment in the Colombian health system constitutes a violation of their fundamental rights, it has been proposed to carry out through the analysis of the law and Colombian jurisprudence in this regard and a case study that allows observing the struggle of people with a diversity of gender so that their rights are recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media portrayal of trans(gender) identities have multiplied in recent years. In order to contribute to the scarce academic literature on transvestism in the area of Communication, the media coverage of the murder of a transvestite man in Castilla y León has been examined through a content analysis. The results indicate that the press continues mixing different facts of sexual diversity. Moreover, from confusing transsexualism with cross-dressing, now it seems that cross-dressing is confused with transsexualism. Despite all this, they also suggest that media coverage of sexual diversity has improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hierarchical influences model attributes significant influence to journalists over their news content. A quantitative content analysis was conducted to examine the impact of journalists’ gender and reporting experience on the media delegitimization of the trans community in Spain. The results emphasize their minimal impact. Instead, media attention and delegitimization of the trans community appear to be shaped by the prevailing value system cultivated in newsrooms, personal attitudes, values, and beliefs and journalistic role performance. These findings underscore the significance of theoretical knowledge over practical experience in the news coverage of specific news topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though homosexuality is no longer considered a psychopathology, in many countries it is still considered a crime and punishments include even the death penalty. As gay rights progressed, so did ultraconservatism, which is accompanied by violence. According to Freud, homosexuality is as enigmatic as heterosexuality, but the belief in sexual complementarity -- unattainable according to psychoanalysis -- is perhaps a factor that leads many transsexuals to seek to harmonize sex and gender. They identify themselves as homosexuals in the first place, before identifying as transsexuals and their discourses reveal that adequation of the transsexual body may be in line with the cultural and homophobia internalized by homosexuals. Could the transsexual demand to match body and soul be a surreptitious attempt to deny homosexuality in contemporary times? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current research analyzes the legislation and jurisprudential system with regard to requirements applied to transsexual people due to the differentiation in female and male genders for the concession of retirement, following the Constitution Amendment 103/2019, within the Brazilian retirement law reform. Research was undertaken through hypothetical and deductive methodology and bibliographic research on the law, administrative decisions, jurisprudence and specialized doctrine on the theme. Results show the need to give greater attention to the theme since the previdenciary system is insufficient to take off the stigma of law omissions so that transsexual people could have their rights guaranteed, without bias, with greater visibility and representativity in social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we present a review of the research available in the literature on gestation and abortion processes in trans men, based on a search in databases such as PsyeINFO and Scielo, for standardized terms such as pregnancy, abortion, trans men, transgender, tranny. This literature review is part of my doctoral thesis, not yet completed, entitled "Transborder Narratives: experiences of trans people, from pregnancy and abortion practices", within the framework of a Postgraduate degree in the area of Psychology. In this way, publications are selected that consider psychological or social aspects of the subject, with approaches from the health area to studies closer to the human and social sciences, in order to identify studies related to this subject. In this way, it is observed that most of the references are from the last ten years. However, it is worth noting a lack of research on abortion and trans men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Describe the experience in Talcahuano Helath Service, of mammary masculinization in the sexual reassignment process, of male transsexuals. In Chile it is estimated that there will be 754 transsexual women. Materials and Method: Study of 47 individuals, operated at Las Higueras Hospital in Talcahuano, between 2006 and 2019, subjected to breast masculinization by subcutaneous mastectomy and reconstruction of the areolomamilar complex. Results: Patients from all over the country were operated; 59% corresponds to the Bio-Bio province; 42.5% operated between 2017 and 2018. A 36% range of ages from 18 to 22 years. 68% BMI between 24 and 30. According to the size of the breasts, 57% B cup, 31% C, 12% D and 12% gigantomasty. At 29%, the average weight of the mastectomy was 600 grams; 29% of 300 grams and 9% more than 800 grams per side. In 68%, the submammary approach and total skin graft of the CAP were used; Other techniques were periareolar, incision in T and liposuction. The most frequent complication was the collection. 100% normal biopsy. Discussion: Pioneering experience in Chile, carried out in a public hospital, in the difficult process of gender reassignment, in the transsexual population of Chile. Individuals very stigmatized by the community, who found in the Health Service of Talcahuano, a helping hand, which extended their selfless and qualified support, achieving excellent final results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this research was to highlight the effects of the sense on the transe-sexuality in some contemporary movie productions, specifically in: Ma vie en rose, Tomboy and The Danish girl. The movies were analyzed within the theoretical framework of Michel Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis. The main outcomes emphasize on the tension created between the medical and the humanitarian discourses, the main characters' gender performances promoting repetitions of the traditional senses, the reinforcement of the typical binaryroles, and the emphasis on the heterosexual matrix in performing the characters' sexual orientation. Besides, it is marked the predominance of an inclusive-discourse composition aimed at sensitizing the cinema goers by portraying the transsexual people's difficulties and sufferings in their social relationships. It is concluded that these movies are important mechanisms of production and reproduction of gender technologies within the marginalized population, and at the same time they show their own conflicts and reinforce the social regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, you will find a series of theoretical and political elements for understanding, debate and the study of diversity based on the views of activists, theorists, and theoreticians who have shared their reflections and experiences. The document is organized in eleven sections addressing the following topics: The contributions of the Feminist theory and the concept of the body as a zone of dispute, the pathologization of the body, pathologization and diversity, the pathologization of transsexuality, biopower or biopolitics and their relationship with diverse communities, the acronym LGBTI and its controversy: are they important to define and self-recognize, represent a real inclusion?, definitions according to the international legal framework, discrimination by sex orientation, identity and expression, some ideas about labels and categories of identification of sexual diversity, a section on Eve Kosofsky's proposal on understanding diversity and a series of final reflections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Spain, the laws of heritage, both national and those of autonomous regions do not make specific references to the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex (LGTBI) heritage. The few references that we can find refer to the regional laws on LGTBI equality. The present investigation has three main objectives: 1) to analyze, categorize and compare the presence and considerations on LGTBI heritage in the 9 Autonomous Communities that have legislated in terms of equality and non-discrimination in relation to LGTBI people; 2) to know if the mentions of heritage have to do with material or intangible historical heritage and historical sites in a context of timelessness, or, conversely, if allusions have to do with assets related to Francoism or of recent creation; and 3) to analyze the possible provisions that these laws may make on the presence of LGTBI-themed funds in libraries and the creation of specialized documentation centers. The methodology used is qualitative and comparative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to localize the intertwining of common or repeated elements in psychoanalytic theorizations about homosexuality and transsexuality. By characterizing psychoanalytic discourses from Freud and Lacan to our days, we find a kind of repetition in these theorizations, since homosexuality has historically been associated to a choice of narcissistic object and perversion, a fact that is repeated nowadays in postulations about transsexualities, which are described as psychosis and perversion. We conclude that a large number of psychoanalytic texts are linked, intertwined and informed by repeating theories such as the thesis of psychic hermaphroditism that serves as the etiological basis for both homosexualities and transsexualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The accessibility and democratization of online media has allowed voices to emerge around issues with low visibility. In this study we are looking at the trans community. Whereas publics are generated in mainstream media, counterpublics emerge from the margins, generating alternative spaces for debate and discussion. YouTube has emerged as a space for collaborative learning and participation, breaking the boundaries between public/private and collective/personal. Taking Elsa Ruiz Cómica and Alejandro P. E.'s YouTube channels as a case study, we intend to understand how their respective counter-publics are configured, and to analyze their strategies of technological appropriation and activism. Thanks to the debate generated by their videos, these trans youtubers manage to transfer innovative concepts to a wider audience, contributing to the recognition of diverse (sexual) identities, and to the questioning of gender binarism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to know possible perspectives and approaches made about trans children. Method: reflective theorical essay, based on a bibliographic survey, using the combination of several descriptors: "trans child", "child transsexuality", "child transsexualism", "transsexual child", "childhood transsexuality" and "trans child universe". Results: 11 publications were found between the years 2005 and 2018, indicating recent investigative interest on the subject. Based on the material, three categories of description and analysis were built with emphasis on studies on transsexuality in the media and trans experiences. The pathologization of this phenomenon was little exalted in the survey. The data also pointed to the field of the human sciences as more interested in this theme, followed by the health sciences, in which the investigations are based on qualitative research approaches and most of them propose interrelationships between empirical, bibliographical and / or documentary sources. Conclusion: besides the little production on the theme in the most diverse areas researched, the studies predominantly highlight the memories about the childhood of trans adults, not proposing to work with children when they live the construction of gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I critically examine the gender dysphoria category published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM 5) produced by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013. I analyze the dominant discourses about sexuality in the patriarchal, binary and heteronormative societies and the different effects these have on the production of gender dysphoria category. I argue that gender identities are socially constructed, not biological or naturally determined, and that those constructions have effects on how people experience their subjectivity. I analyzed the imperceptible link between the transgression of the sexual dominant rules and the pyschopathologization of transsexuality. I conclude proposing the idea that identities, including transsexuality, are fluids and polymorphous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose to revisit the traditional portrait of transsexual people established in the 1950s: the conviction of being "in the wrong body", victim of a "mistake of nature", vital demand of reassignment at any price to get reborn in one's "real body". We will try to show that this discourse did not reflect, at that time, the reality of the suffering and experience of the majority of the patients and to follow its development from the moment speech became more free, especially with the birth of the transgender movement. We further analyze in what way - beyond the deconstruction of the male-female binarity - the deconstruction of all binarity, all the lines of separation between species takes place: man/woman, but also man/animal, and beyond that, man/machine, living/non-living, which leads us directly to a posthuman world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes current studies on the health of adolescents and adult's transgender from a gender perspective, taking into account the psychological consequences suffered by people who do not meet the typical standards of the gender. To do this, bibliographic searches are carried out in Psicodoc, PsycInfo and Dialnet databases. We found 14 articles, of which 5 studied health in people of the LGB collective and the other 9 dealt with the issue of health and transsexuality. Two book chapters that addressed the issue of gender and health were also included. In conclusion, LGBT people continue to suffer harassment and discrimination. Thus, the harassment suffered and the denial of their true identity can have negative consequences on the health of these people, so a true normalization of affective-sexual diversity would be a great advance for the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we consider the autobiographical narratives written by Daniela Andrade, a militant and transsexual woman, in order to extract what she can teach us about transsexuality as a possibility of making a subjective tie. Drawing upon the way she organizes her experience discursively, recurring to the distinction between gender identity, gender role, anatomy, and sexual orientation, we will raise the hypothesis that such differentiation permits her making herself a proper name ("Daniela Andrade") by electing, in the Symbolic, the signifier "trans woman" to represent her in front of the Other. Thus, by means of a symbolic nomination, Daniela finds a way to operate the rewriting of her jouissance through the invention of a proper name, making up a transsexual sinthomatic solution in the Symbolic, which corrects the double nodal lapse between her body (I) and the desire of the Other (S). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalytic writings on transsexuality have increased exponentially. However, a gap remains in terms of what guides analytical practice aimed at transsexuals. Based on Butler and Laplanche, we perform a critical analysis of a clinical report and propose a hypothesis on the difficulties that came up during our theoretical studies and practical work with transsexuality. The paper concludes with a reflection on the ethical and political potential of psychoanalysis, advocating a clinic that goes beyond the "trans" diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes the social right to health of transsexual populations and its efficaciousness in private relationships. The main points comprise transsexuality as gender identity, the theory of horizontal efficaciousness of fundamental rights, the horizontal efficaciousness of social rights. Research on deductive bibliography has revealed that the private sphere is not immune to norms inherent to fundamental rights and, consequently, they may be efficacious in relationships where the State is not present. The transsexual person's social right to health should take into account the characteristics of body and mind, acknowledged within the private sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The short epistolary novel Ruth by Guillem Viladot was published posthumously in 2000 and received only brief press mention, in spite of its singular treatment of the subject of transsexuality which set it apart within the Catalan and Spanish literary panorama of the time. The portrayal of the psychological and emotional struggle experienced by the artist and sculptor Ruth before and after surgery, is heavily inflected by Viladot's interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, and runs in parallel with a discourse on the process of artistic creation. This article examines the way in which art functions as a metaphor for an alternative endpoint (or at least outcome) of transitioning, which is ultimately more optimistic than the reality confronted by Ruth as she slides into psychosis. Drawing on the recent work of psychoanalyst Oren Gozlan which seeks to understand transsexuality as a creative act, the article argues that Viladot is prescient in seeing the possibilities in aesthetic discourse for our understanding of sexual difference and identity. At the same time, with reference to Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides and its criticism, it underscores the contemporary relevance of the novel in questioning the still dominant sex/gender binary and cultural backwardness characteristic of debates around transsexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I discuss female transsexualism in childhood. I use the film My Life in Pink (BERLINER, 1997) and the documentary My Secret Self (GOLDBERG, 2007) as objects of analysis, trying to relate them to the current debate on the Ideology of Gender. My interest, then, focuses on the central ideas of the two productions, namely: the transition from male to female gender, the pathologization and depatologization of trans identities, the relations between anatomical sex and gender identity, symbolic violence, cisheteronormativity and adultcentrism. To make this debate, I turn to John Thompson's (2009) reflections on mass communication and symbolic violence, gender studies and sexual diversity, as well as to poststructuralist studies, especially Michel Foucault's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is an important number of documentary films focusing on Puerto Rican drag performance and transgender lives. Mala Mala (2014) is exemplary in this respect, portraying civil rights activism, labor difficulties, the impact of transnational media, the negotiation of prejudice and stigma, and the great advances of LGBT visibility. By focusing on nine individuals, directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, cinematographer Adam Uhl and editor Sofía Subercaseaux convey many complexities of this experience, including questions of language, body modification, migration, personal relationships, and aging. Some of the film's limitations are its lack of greater representation of trans masculinities and of racial diversity. This article compares Mala Mala to several additional productions, proposing that this important corpus be recognized as a coherent whole. It also proposes mala mala (very bad, fierce) subjectivities as a form of resistant identity in Puerto Rico. Hay un número importante de documentales sobre el transformismo y la experiencia transgénero puertorriqueña. Mala Mala (2014) es notable en este sentido, mostrando activismo de derechos civiles, dificultades laborales, el impacto de los medios de comunicación transnacionales, la negociación del prejuicio y el estigma, y los enormes avances de la visibilidad LGBT. Enfocándose en nueve individuos, los directores Antonio Santini y Dan Sickles, el cinematógrafo Adam Uhl y la editora Sofía Subercaseaux captan muchas de las complejidades sobre esta experiencia, incluyendo cuestiones del lenguaje, modificación corporal, migración, relaciones personales y envejecimiento. Algunas de las limitaciones de la película son la parca muestra de masculinidades trans y de diversidad racial. Este artículo compara a Mala Mala con varias producciones adicionales, proponiendo que se reconozca la totalidad de este importante corpus. También propone las subjetividades malas malas como forma de identidad resistente en Puerto Rico. [End Page 3] Il existe aujourd'hui un grand nombre de documentaires sur le transformisme et l'expérience transgenre portoricaine. Mala Mala (2014) mérite, à ce titre, d'être signalé, car ce documentaire met au jour le combat pour les droits civils, les difficultés rencontrées dans le monde du travail, l'impact des médias transnationaux, la négociation des préjugés et des stigmates, ainsi que les grandes avancées qui ont permis de rendre visible les LGBT. En se concentrant sur de nouveaux sujets, les réalisateurs, Antonio Santini et Dan Sickles, le cinématographe Adam Uhl et la monteuse Sofía Subercaseaux parviennent à rendre les complexités de cette expérience, y compris dans ses dimensions langagières, migratoires, physiques (transformations corporelles ou encore vieillissement) et relationnelles. Le film n'aborde toutefois que de manière limitée certains aspect du transformisme, comme la minorité d'hommes trans ou encore la question de la diversité ethnique. Cet article propose une comparaison de Mala Mala avec d'autres productions, arguant qu'il s'agit-là d'un corpus à part entière. Nous nous proposons également de montrer que les subjectivités malas malas agissent comme des formes de résistance identitaire à Porto Rico [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I discuss female transsexualism in childhood. I use the film My Life in Pink (BERLINER, 1997) and the documentary My Secret Self (GOLDBERG, 2007) as objects of analysis, trying to relate them to the current debate on the Ideology of Gender. My interest, then, focuses on the central ideas of the two productions, namely: the transition from male to female gender, the pathologization and depatologization of trans identities, the relations between anatomical sex and gender identity, symbolic violence, cisheteronormativity and adultcentrism. To make this debate, I turn to John Thompson's (2009) reflections on mass communication and symbolic violence, gender studies and sexual diversity, as well as to poststructuralist studies, especially Michel Foucault's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to discuss the relations between transsexuality and the sexual norm from the theoretical interlocution between psychoanalysis and queer studies. The mediated and crossed transsexuality of the medical / institutional discourse today updates the ideal of the perfect alignment between body and identification, in which the masculine and feminine positions would be stabilized. In view of this, we propose a re-reading of the Oedipus in Freud and Lacan, highlighting the points of fissure, failure to normalize sexual positions. Such perspective has allowed us to approach psychoanalysis and queer studies under the common epistemological axis of the concept of 'pure difference', in which there is a contingent relation with the phallic logic, impossible to be universalized. In the conclusion, we point out some political consequences of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and queer studies, which question the rigid definitions of sexual difference and contribute to the increasing spatologization of trans subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To know the main self-care practices and the support received during the transitioning process of some transgender women living in the city of Bogotá D.C. Methodology. A qualitative approach was made to 5 transgender women and 5 people accompanying the process through recorded in-depth interviews which were transcribed and with information analyzed in Excel by generating variables from the discourse. Results and conclusions. Self-care practices were found in the discourse, adopted and created from the risks of the transformation process. Women reported being victims of violence because of gender bias when affirming their identity. The objective to have the desired image is superior to the submission of risk situations, minimized during the gender transitioning process until obtaining the desired identity, thus reaching a complete state of wellness. Guarantee and access to health services are necessary for equality in the rights of all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este texto analiza las vivencias espaciales de hombres transexuales residentes en la ciudad de Ponta Grossa, Paraná. Nuestra fuente de reflexión se refiere a los resultados de cuatro entrevistas realizadas con hombres trans que vivencian o vivenciaron los espacios educativos de nivel superior. Estas entrevistas apuntan a un proceso de identificación no lineal como hombre trans, y que las relaciones acerca de la adopción del nombre social son distintas, pues su utilización por los sujetos se inicia en diferentes contextos temporales y espaciales. Por último, la transfobia atravesa todos los niveles educativos, pero es a través del espacio escolar que esta acción se presenta de forma más intensa, lo que hace necesaria la creación de estrategias para la propia permanencia en estas espaciales desde la temprana edad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights related to the legal recognition of the changes of gender identity. These cases are solved by a broad interpretation of the article 8 European Convention of Human Rights, in which intimacy and privacy are protected. Particularly, it discusses how the interpretation of intimacy does not change the assumptions by which these demands are locked within the private sphere, the unequal relations this produces. Therefore, other reasoning is proposed to ensure a more comprehensive equality, which respects transitions of gender identity from notions like agency, autonomy and sexual self-determination, already proposed by the European Court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article seeks to analyze the mediatic phenomenon resulting from the performance of the group CitizenGO, which in 2017 made a mediatic staging using the so-called "bus of freedom" as a tool to make visible the demand of the evangelical world against the principles of gender theory and the theory of progressive autonomy in children. For this, the article analyzes and stresses the main arguments of the spokeswoman of the group, calling into question the report of the magazine The New Atlantis and showing that, underlying all the speech that arises after the "preferential right of parents", there is not but a deep fear of difference and a deep love for ignorance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association consider transsexuality a pathology and suggest sex-gender reassignment for the biopsychic adjustment of trans people. Through the discursive analysis of experience, this study describes the processes of medicalization and gender performativity in relation to the health of a group of trans women from Mexico City. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted in which 10 semi-structured interviews were carried out in 2015. As part of medicalization, the pathologization of transsexuality generated psychic suffering; on the other hand, sex-gender reassignment also entailed additional risks. It is possible to conclude that in trans women, violence and exclusion constitute the primary experiences explaining their foremost health problems. Therefore, it is suggested that it is necessary for discrimination be reduced and for advancements to be made in safer medical interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish State does not recognize the right to gender identity of transgender minors, nor does it foresee a special procedure that allows the change the name of all transgender minors according to their gender identity, provoking the violation of their fundamental rights. The situation of legal abandonment is alleviated thanks to the legislation promulgated by the majority of the Autonomous Communities in the areas in which they have competences and that are essential for the minors, like education and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores issues related to transsexuality based on the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria as the subject basic structure. The impressive hysteria epidemics throughout history reveal how hysteria produces radical questioning of the sexual difference enigma intended to the dominant knowledge of each era. To answer the question about where is the hysteria place nowadays, we launch the following hypothesis: the most significant appearance taken by hysteria today is the transsexual epidemic, produced in the encounter with the science discourse, dominant in the globalized culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores issues related to transsexuality based on the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria as the subject basic structure. The impressive hysteria epidemics throughout history reveal how hysteria produces radical questioning of the sexual difference enigma intended to the dominant knowledge of each era. To answer the question about where is the hysteria place nowadays, we launch the following hypothesis: the most significant appearance taken by hysteria today is the transsexual epidemic, produced in the encounter with the science discourse, dominant in the globalized culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to reflect on the management of sexual diversity in the implementation of socio-educational legal determination, through the analysis of the case of a transsexual adolescent in conflict with the law. As a method, we used the analysis of the adolescent deprivation of liberty processes with authorization from the State of Rio Grande do Sul Justice (Brazil). It was concluded that the institution of adolescents detention in Porto Alegre lacks the establishment of general policies and permanent discussion forums on the management of sexual diversity, that consider in a systemic way the influence of cultural and moral values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies suggest that LGBT population's issues are becomig more visible, and this includes mental health. Despite significant advances due to the creation of the National LGBT Health Policy, in Brazil, health services often still think their practices without taking this policy in account. Thus, we proposed a reflection for the teams of a psychiatric hospital wing and of a CAPS AD III (Center for Psychossocial Attention - Alcohol and Drugs) regarding the assistance to transsexuals, whenever these users need an overnight stay in the facilities, where the beds are separated in male/female. Focus groups were conducted with each team and the analysis was done by the OnockoCampos Narrative Method. Eight themes were chosen for analysis, and they are exposed in this article by means of narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the theorizations about transsexuality in order to discuss its inclusion in the field of psychosis. Many concepts about transsexuality, ranging from the DSM to recent theorizations by Lacanian authors, are critically investigated in a dialogue with feminist theory authors. The hypothesis put forward is that originary femininity plays a different role in transsexuality and in some cases of psychosis, leading to the conclusion that transsexuality cannot be classified as pathology a priori. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until recently transsexuality was considered an anomaly, which led to the discrimination and stigmatization of transsexual people. This is not only limited to the general population, but quite possibly affects health professionals as well, which has an impact on how transsexual individuals access health care services. The conceptions about transsexuality of fifth-year medical students of the North Integrated Clinical Department of the University of Carabobo in year 2016 were analized. The nature of the research was descriptive, with a non-experimental and cross-sectional design and a quantitative analysis, with qualitative elements, and was based on the Valdez and Figueroa natural semantic networks method. The survey was administered to 100 students; each of them expressed in five words their representation of the concept and ranked it according to the importance they assigned to it. The sample profile indicates a majority of female students, 67%, the most common religious background was Catholic, 72%, and most of them were heterosexual, 91%. A total of 193 defining words emerged, of which Change (100%), Homosexuality (57.46%) and Freedom (41.79%) were the ones with more semantic weight. Students' conceptions about transsexuality are mainly oriented towards a dimension of recognition and sexual /sex/gender orientation. Results showed the existence of important misconceptions about the term transsexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

transsexuality has occupied different scenarios within psychological theories. Different treatments and theories had emerged in clinical approaches raising the question about what psychotherapists think about transsexuals regarding their professional field. This article presents some findings of a research conducted in Venezuela, whose objective was to understand the meaning of transsexuality for psychotherapists, highlighting their opinions about depathologization, their experience in treatment and the implications this may have for themselves. During the investigation, the relevance of the social context - which will be discussed in this paper-as a mediator for the psychotherapeutic understanding of this condition proved to play an important role. Concepts such as gender, pathologization, and depathologization were located as key elements within the discussion. In-depth interviews were carried out to a sample of psychotherapists and subsequently were analyzed through constant comparative method under a 'constructionist' paradigm. Among the relevant conclusions, we found the rigidity of the dichotomic concept of gender as a barrier for welcoming sexual diversity, the stigmatization as the main problem for the depathologization, and the relevance of 'the different' as pathologizing criterion. vance of «the different» as pathologizing criterion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The treatment of the transgenderism is mainly irreversible. Therefore, a very carefully psychological assessment is needed. However, being transgenderism an emergent phenomenon there are a few guidelines. So that, it is necessary to have at least some guidance on which areas transgenderism should be evaluated. To the aim of this study is to propose a number of areas to include in the psychological assessment of transgender people. In it are reviewed either usual assessment areas in Clinical Psychology and the aspects that are usually taken into consideration in the assessment of transgenderism. As a result a number of areas for the psychological interview to assess transgender people is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of new social movements and demands legitimized by political subjects, present after the return to democracy in Brazil and Latin America, point us to a rights claim, that has led to the production of conflicts around new meanings about issues like identity, race, nationality, social class, gender, sexuality, among others. In this sense, this article has as one of its objectives to discuss the theme of gender and identities policies that exist in Brazil, as well as the right to full human dignity that corresponds to the free exercise of sexuality, rights of personality, identity and autonomy from transgender experiences so that they can be seen full subjects rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]