Transexuality: reflecting about stigma and social exclusion

Authors

  • Jaime Alonso Caravaca Morera University of Costa Rica
  • Maria Itayra Padilha Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2016v13n1p120

Abstract

This reflection is aimed at analyzing the different manifestations of the stigma and the social exclusion among the transgender population. Numerous strategies have been raised from the heteronormative and patriarchal control that influence the different expressions of the transsexuality in contemporary times. Social exclusion and stigmatization have different faces and elements such as, the personal, cognitive, emotional, structural and behavioral components, which emerge as a direct result of the implementation of the pathologizing ideology of the transsexual condition and other manifestations of corporeality and sexuality in the ontological conception of the subject. Nursing and other Social Sciences, need to implement some strategies in different levels in order to diminish the consequences of social exclusion and stigma among this population.

Author Biographies

Jaime Alonso Caravaca Morera, University of Costa Rica

Enfermeiro. Professor e Pesquisador na University of Costa Rica (UCR). Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal Santa Catarina-Brasil (PEN/UFSC). Mestre pelo PEN/UFSC. Especialista em Saúde Internacional pelo Centre of Addictions and Mental Health-Canadá (CICAD/CAMH). Membro do Grupo de Estudos de História do Conhecimento da Enfermagem e Saúde (GEHCES) e do Re:searching for LGBTQ Health (University of Toronto, CAMH-Canadá). San José, Costa Rica. E-mail: jaimealonso.caravaca@ucr.ac.cr

Maria Itayra Padilha, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professora Titular do Departamento de Enfermagem e do PEN/UFSC-Brasil. Doutora em Enfermagem pela Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Líder do GEHCES. Pesquisadora do CNPq. Florianópolis-SC. E-mail: itayra.padilha@ufsc.br

Published

2016-07-09

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