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0109/2022 - Masculinities under construction, bodies under (re)construction:desires, contradictions and ambiguities of trans men in the transsexualization process.
Masculinidades em construção, corpos em (re)construção: desejos, contradições e ambiguidades de homens trans no processo transexualizador.

Author:

• Cláudia Regina Ribeiro - Ribeiro, C. R. - <claudiaribeiro@id.uff.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0262-0073

Co-author(s):

• Andrea Felizardo Ahmada - Ahmada, A. F. - <andreafelizardo.enfermeira@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1269-3612)
• Beatriz Selles Dantas - Dantas , B. S. - <biaselles@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7906-635X
• Adriana Lemos - Lemos, A. - <adrianalemos@unirio.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9705-6200


Abstract:

The article presents the results of a research on the strategies, expectations and desires of 28 transsexual men in the construction of their masculinities and reconstruction of their bodies through hormonization. The qualitative research was carried out in an outpatient clinic of the transsexualization process in a city in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. For the construction of the data, the semi-structured interview and the participant observation were used between the months of November 2019 and January 2020. The Content Analysis guided the analysis of the speeches, from which the categories that were discussed emerged, which were discussed of the concepts of gender, transsexuality and masculinities, in addition to references from studies on race/ethnicity, in their articulations with health. The data revealed desires, contradictions and ambiguities regarding the construction of masculinity and the (re)construction of bodies more suited to it; evidenced the desire for the body standard of masculinity that would be conquered through hormoneization and surgeries, and the color black emerged as an important mark of inequality. However, reflections of denial of the patriarchal pattern also emerged. We conclude that, even refuting many features of the masculinity model, these men want to enter this world and blend in with the crowd as men, thus experiencing a fuller masculinity.



Keywords:

gender, trans health; trans men; transsexualizing process

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Ribeiro, C. R., Ahmada, A. F., Dantas , B. S., Lemos, A.. Masculinities under construction, bodies under (re)construction:desires, contradictions and ambiguities of trans men in the transsexualization process.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2022/May). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/masculinities-under-construction-bodies-under-reconstructiondesires-contradictions-and-ambiguities-of-trans-men-in-the-transsexualization-process/18365?id=18365



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