Vidas e amores para além da heterocisnormatividade nas experiências de travestis e mulheres transexuais

Abstract

This work analyzes the love experiences of transvestites and transsexual women, based on the impacts that heterocisnormativity causes in their lives, which are considered abject. Studies on transvestites and transgender women have focused predominantly on three axes: violence, STIs/AIDS and prostitution, as work imposed on this social group due to lack of opportunities in other professions. In these studies, therefore, the love experience lived as a constitutive element of subjectivities does not emerge. In these terms, this path must be followed, being a contribution that encourages other productions on this theme, in the sense of multiplying knowledge in a field of investigation that is still little explored. To carry out this research, it was essential to establish a dialogue between certain currents of psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality theorists. Through a qualitative research, using enunciation analysis, I interviewed 4 transvestites and 8 transsexual women, who filled out the sociodemographic questionnaire and narrated their love experiences, later distributed in categories and analyzed thematically. In these terms, it was possible to find in the multiplicity of loves experienced by transvestites and transsexual women, in addition to heterocisnormative conceptions, cisgender discourses and practices, a framework for transphobic actions against this social group. I also verified the existence of heterociscompulsoriety and the necessary restoration of psychoanalysis, in a political perspective of visibility and struggle for the recognition of the lives of transvestites and transsexual women, based on their love experiences, in a process of non-violent confrontation of gender norms and sexuality.