A construção do gênero nas relações amorosas: um estudo com mulheres transexuais jovens e o processo de feminização.

Abstract

Transexuality is considered a mental desease by the medical view. In opposition, social sciences and gender studies question this classification. The present study addresses transsexuality by the criticism of the pathologization of gender identities that question the conexion between gender and anatomical sex. Transexuality is a complex and diverse experience that can elucidate aspects of gender identity in contemporary western societies. A qualitative study was held. Four young transsexual women between the ages of 18 and 22 were interviewed. Half of the interviews were presencial and the other half were virtual, the virtual ones happened in multiple contacts. This study focuses on love relations to clarify the construction of gender identity. The study seeks to understand, from the point of view of young transsexual women, how gender is built in love relations and through body modification. I describe, from the native perspective, how the process of feminization is, investigate how the access to health was services and investigate the multiple ways to deal with transfobia inside love relations. The results show strategies used by the women to deal with rejection and stigmatization such as passing , publicizing their identity and abiding by traditional gender norms.