Transexualidade, rede de apoio e suas multiplicidades: do acolhimento ao protagonismo

Abstract

This research aims to understand the role of support network and their effects on processes of subjectivization of transgender people, called here also people who move between genders, and legitimize singular modes of existence. From the genealogic perspective, deconstrucs the scientific discourse that engendered transexuality as a mental disorder, as well as questions the treatments and medical-legal procedures forged to deal with gender expressions that differ from alleged established normality. Cartography, taken as a methodological approach, helped the insertion in the field, that occurred in Grupo TransRevolução, in Rio de Janeiro. Through the use of the term support network, already used by people informally, it is possible to understand the dynamics of group, the meetings that enables, constituting a speech space, listening, horizontality, production of care for the self and the others, and also where the activism is organized.