Homens no plural: tecnologias de gênero, corpo e acesso à saúde para transmasculinos no Ceará

Abstract

The present research aimed to investigate the meanings of the body and access to health for transsexual men in their “gender transition” itineraries in the State of Ceará. The field was configured by immersion in public and private health institutional spaces, in the Associação Transmasculina do Ceará (ATRANSCE) and in whatsapp virtual groups for trans people from January 2020 to January 2021; as methodology, it was used the registration of field diaries, photography, autoetnographic reports, and the empirical material collected through the application of semi-structured interviews with seven trans men. Based in studies of gender, body, masculinities and queer theory, we synthesize in this work the main findings and reflections on the proposed theme with regard to sociological analyzes of the multiplicity of “men's bodies” constructed by gender technologies available in modern capitalism pharmacopornographic. Through this research, we identified the impacts of the lack of public policies on access to health for transgender people in the State, who resort to private plans or hormonal self-management without professional monitoring; the crossing of gender, race and class as structures that configure personal and socially shared experiences by these subjects, in addition to generational, school and regional markers; the tensions in the hegemonic discourse about the “single transsexual” or “legitimate transsexual” and the inauguration of the category hormonal authoritarianism that seeks to highlight the imposition / requirement of hormones and surgical procedures in the medical recognition about trans experiences.