Stories without a “once upon a time”: The (Un)certainties of Transsexuality

Authors

  • Flavia do Bonsucesso Teixeira Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200011

Abstract

From fragments of life stories of (transsexual) people, I try to explain the diversity oftheir livings, unique experiences, ways of making sense of the process of breaking the gendernorms and sexuality. I analyze the inadequacy of medical-legal discourse, anchored in anessencialized truth on the sexualized body, to capture the possibilities of experiences intranssexuality. I argue that the destabilizing potential of transsexuality lies in withdrawing from thereductionist view, which considerss transsexuals as misguided people trapped in a body whoseintelligibility would depend solely upon reassignment surgery.

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Author Biography

Flavia do Bonsucesso Teixeira, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

É doutora em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 2009), professora Adjunta da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Desenvolveupesquisa de pós-doutorado sobre conjugalidade e migrações de travestis para a Itália na Universitá degli Studi di Milano. Pesquisa sobre gênero, sexualidade, prostituição, migraçõese conjugalidade.

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Published

2012-05-21

How to Cite

Teixeira, F. do B. (2012). Stories without a “once upon a time”: The (Un)certainties of Transsexuality. Revista Estudos Feministas, 20(2), 501–512. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200011

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Dossiers

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