Queering Health or the right to self-definition in (and beyond) health

Authors

  • Daniella Chagas Mesquita Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Esmael Alves de Oliveira Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados - UFGD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-5938

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/cgd.v8i2.49513

Abstract

This article seeks to understand how transsexual people in the search for their health meanings intend and question the transsexualizing devices. That was how, through an cartographic field research carried out at a Transexualizador Ambulatory located in Campo Grande (MS) and a meeting between the LGBT/MS Forum and the Municipal Health Secretariat (SESAU), we were able to think so much the mechanisms that restrict access, rights and recognition regarding the strategies of trans subjects for their questioning and subversion. Thus, from the observations and dialogues established, it was possible to see how the trans experiences, from the point of view of biomedical knowledge-power, are still inserted in a cisgender, binary and heteropatriarchal intelligibility. Despite this, the resistance of trans subjects and groups reveals that this device is far from having the last word on their bodies, their lives and their health.

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Author Biographies

Daniella Chagas Mesquita, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Graduada em Psicologia (UCDB), mestra em Antropologia Social (PPGAS/UFMS), doutoranda em Antropologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e Arqueologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).

Esmael Alves de Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados - UFGD

Graduado em Filosofia e Psicologia, doutor em Antropologia Social (PPGAS/UFSC), docente dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia (PPGPsi) e Antropologia (PPGAnt) da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

Published

2022-07-01

How to Cite

Mesquita, D. C. ., & Oliveira, E. A. de . (2022). Queering Health or the right to self-definition in (and beyond) health. Cadernos De Gênero E Diversidade, 8(2), 67–93. https://doi.org/10.9771/cgd.v8i2.49513

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