"Ela não pode ser pai?": um estudo sobre a transparentalidade a partir de três casos de mulheres trans

Abstract

This work analyzes parenting experiences of trans women, and uses the analytical category of transparenting. Trans people, as well as their lives, their perceptions of themselves and their relationships, especially with their families, are unquestionably marked by one of the hegemonically established values ​​in Brazilian society, called in this work compulsory cisheteronormativity. In parallel to this, the rapid advancement of communication technologies in recent decades has allowed more and more people to access the internet, television channels and other tools that enable the acquisition of diverse information and worldviews, therefore making it possible to live different lives. This greater accessibility makes narratives about non-hegemonic life experiences more visible, such as those of trans people, which are represented until today almost exclusively by the biases and speeches of cisgender people. Such representations are recurrently pejorative, reiterating stigmas associated with trans people, such as: abject, sinful, sick, criminal, victims and devoid of autonomy. These representations also reiterate the link between trans people and subjects such as HIV/AIDS, prostitution, violence, criminality and marginalization. However, since the final years of the 20th century, trans people have been enjoying some possibility of speaking on their own and about themselves, when, for example, they are invited to participate in documentaries and television auditorium programs, or when they publish videos and texts with their own reports and reflections on the internet. And this work intends to praise the speeches of trans women, by analyzing these public records of these narratives about trans women that were made by themselves. This work will analyze records dealing with cases of trans women who exercise parenthood, in which they talk about how transparenting affects their life experiences, their identities and their relationships. It should be noted that this work is done from the perspective of a researcher who also configures herself as a trans person, who enunciates herself as a non-binary trans woman. Without intending to exhaust the discussion of the subject with answers that are presumed to be universal or demystifying, the aim of this work is to raise questions that allow thinking about how trans women experience parenthood, for example, when enunciating themselves as fathers of their children, in a peculiar way of self-affirmation that escapes a binary perspective of gender, imposed by compulsory cisheteronormativity. A qualitative research will be carried out based on the analysis of textual and audiovisual records that are available for public access about three trans women. Such records consist of documentaries, interviews, participation in auditorium programs, speeches at congresses, textual publications and autobiographies, in which such trans women and their relatives give reports of their experiences and perceptions of the world regarding the theme of transparenting and other themes that relate to this topic. We seek to verify the existence of tension between the trajectory of construction of gender identity and the parenting experiences of these trans women who, we conclude, experience a hierarchical parenting that we call joker parenting.