This article aims to reflect about rights and reproductive health concerning trans population (transvestites, transsexuals, transgender). We carried out an ethnographic inspired research and an analysis of Brazilian health and human rights documents. Thus, we verified the absence of the reference to the trans population in discourses and practices concerning the rights and reproductive health in general, as well as its predominant invisibility in documents related to the gender reassignment process and the rights of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals community (LGBT). We analyze the accounts of trans people, obtained by participant observation and four individuals interviews, to problematize reproductive health treatment, highlighting the health professionals' role. We question abortion, practice that trans men may be subject to. Lastly, we approach the reproductive heterocisnormativity, which leads to a situation we propose to name "symbolic sterility" of trans population. Reproduction and parenthoods, therefore, seems inconceivable notions when it comes to reflect about subjects who are conceived by the idea of abjection.
This work aims to present the results of the quantitative part of the research project entitled "Ideology, production of subjectivities and drugs: media discourse on crack in the (post)modern culture". The methodology consisted of an analysis of the symbolic forms that refer to the crack published in two newspapers of general circulation within the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The descriptive statistical analysis of data was performed using the SPSS v.17 software. The results suggest that these newspapers treated the use of crack as a "police matter", linking it directly to violence. However, there was a lack of in-depth discussions regarding the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.
As experiências da população trans (travestis e transexuais) relacionadas à reprodução e à parentalidade são predominantemente invisibilizadas. Este artigo teve como objetivo problematizar a invisibilidade das experiências de parentalidades trans e a noção de família. Foi realizada pesquisa de inspiração etnográfica, utilizando observação participante, diários de campo e entrevistas. Refletiu-se sobre a cisheteronormatividade reprodutiva, a qual cria uma situação que se propôs conceituar como “esterilização simbólica” da população trans, pois reprodução e parentalidades parecem noções impensáveis quando se trata de sujeitos constituídos pela ideia de abjeção. A partir da escuta das pessoas interlocutoras, enfatizou-se a performatividade da parentalidade e o desejo, as práticas de cuidado, o imperativo da maternidade e a problematização da noção de família.
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