Author:

• Márcia Arán - Arán, M. - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Medicina Social da UERJ - <marciaaran@terra.com.br>

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Abstract:

The article aims to discuss transsexuality in the context of the politics of public health in Brazil. For this, at a first moment, it questions the necessity of the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder as a condition of access to the treatment in the public net, searching to understand the historical construction of transsexuality as a pathological phenomenon. After that, it analyzes the debate on the politics of public health for transsexuals, considering the process of legalization of the reassignment surgery in the country, the resolutions of the Federal Council of Medicine and the constitution of representative forums of the Health Ministry, as well as the professionals of the area and the representatives of the social movement. Finally, considering the reference works that emphasizes the critics on the analysis of transsexuality as a pathological phenomenon in the areas of the Collective Health and Social Sciences, it intends to emphasize the importance of understanding the diversity of subjectivity’s forms and gender’s construction considering transsexuality. In this context, it discusses the question of transsexuals’ autonomy and suggests public politics that, even following an assistance protocol, do not have as its only therapeutical reference the accomplishment of the diagnosis and the reassignment surgery.
Key words: transsexuality, public health, sexuality, gender, subjectivity.

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