O direito ao uso do nome social na escola, nas normativas legais e no SIGEDUC da Bahia

Abstract

The use of a social name in schools is a right aimed at ensuring access to and permanence of transgender people in the school environment. Since 2008, federal units in Brazil have issued legal regulations guaranteeing this right; for example, in 2013, the Bahia State Council of Education published Resolution CEE No. 120. It was only in 2018 that a regulation at the national level was published, namely Resolution CNE/CP No. 1, prepared by the National Council of Education and approved by the Ministry of Education. The legal regulations regarding the use of the social name in schools indicate that these measures affect school documentation and have pedagogical implications. Thus, in the present study, it was necessary to investigate the Integrated Education Management System (SIGEDUC), used to include students’ social names in school records in the state of Bahia. Therefore, the general objective of this research is to understand how the right to the use of the social name in schools is ensured through legal regulations and through Bahia’s SIGEDUC system. In addition, three specific objectives were defined: to present how academic literature has addressed the use of the social name of transgender and transvestite students in schools; to map the legal regulations that guarantee the implementation of the use of the social name in schools, with emphasis on the state of Bahia; and to investigate how Bahia’s SIGEDUC enables the registration and use of the social name of transgender and transvestite students. To achieve these objectives, a methodological approach divided into three main stages was adopted: literature review, survey of legal regulations, and field research through interviews with a school secretary and a pedagogical coordinator. The results indicate that Bahia’s resolution meets the provisions established by the national resolution regarding the use of the social name of transgender people in school records; however, when compared to regulations from other states, there are measures that could be adopted in a new publication, such as the use of the social name in electronic addresses and external documents. Furthermore, SIGEDUC allows the inclusion of the social name and automatically updates the teacher’s gradebook, but it presents a weakness regarding the confidentiality of the civil name, as it is used in the institutional email.