Trans-politics in transcontexts - transsexuality, clinic and identities

Abstract

This text aims to verify the different contexts in which the transsexuality appears in the federal, and São Paulo’s state and city public policies agenda, producing and been produced by institutional and clinical discourses, by the same time articulated by international medical knowledge and technologies. The genealogy of transsexuality is directly tied to a clinical institution. Its institution as a nosological category reflects directly on the implantation of new subjective aspects in the gender field, some that oppose as some adhere to the nosographic devices. This work has been written through bibliographic revision over the public policies about health care to transsexuality in Brazil, and collecting narratives from professionals and patients of the transsexuality process in São Paulo, trying to follow part of this process locally. It should propose to medical sciences a reflection about the transsexuality from a wider perspective, considering social aspects of human health, as the right of diversity and free sexual and gender expressions, so that keeping pathologizing trans identities should be questionable today.