Gender pathologization and criminalization: The prison experience of transvestites
Júlia Silva Vidal,
Ela Wiecko Volkmer de Castilho
Abstract:The experience of being a transvestite is traversed by multiple regulations in the fields of law and medicine. Both fields of knowledge articulate and reaffirm a specific normative conception of gender that leads to the criminalization and pathologization of this experience. This situation reaches alarming levels, especially in the case of imprisoned transvestites. To illustrate the articulation between pathologization and criminalization, we use bibliographic research and the field report constructed by one o… Show more
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