Dispositivo da sexualidade e saúde para transgêneros nas trilhas de Fortaleza

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of the sexuality device on the health care network attending transgender people in the city of Fortaleza. We visited different spaces that provide healthcare for these people, NGOs, and talked with transgender people and health professionals. Considering that we live in a heteronormativity society organized by the binary of sex and gender, we understand that bodies that resist the standard divide woman-vaginafemale or man-penis-male are destined to areas of invisibility and abjection. In health care system norms based on such binarism produce bodies of dangerous sexuality which therefore must be controlled and supervised. We observed transgender people in Fortaleza are assisted in health care system mainly for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of STD / AIDS. The ambiguity of transgender bodies leads to breaches in the sexual norm, in that they display traces of both sexes, beards, breasts, penis, estrogen, testis, signs that are associated exclusively either to male or female. These people become a constant target for governmentality technologies aiming to normalize them whilst at the same time are considered illegitimate, non-subject.