Performatividades de gênero em mulheres transgênero do município de Vitória da Conquista-Bahia: tensões e deslocamentos

Abstract

The proposal unfolds through the interest in expanding scientific debates and productions about the experiences of transgender women from a feminist perspective. To this end, interviews were conducted with two transgender women living in the city of Vitória da Conquista - Bahia, understanding the interior region as an important feature to understand other realities and transversalities. The objective was to describe, based on the concept of gender performativities developed by the philosopher Judith Butler (1990), and to analyze, through the empirical phenomenological method proposed by Amedeo Giorgi (1970), the life trajectories of these women with reference to their narratives about their performativities with a focus on the social and subjective implications perceived by them throughout this process. The results found spanned five axes: gender identity; family; health, affectivity and social life. They suggest the importance of producing cracks, tensioning, displacements in Cis-Hetero-Norms, in order to enable new gender lenses and other possibilities of existence.