Abstract

RODRIGUES, Pedro Luiz Rocha et al. Disputing bodies: Experiences of Transvestites and Trans Women in Accessing Public Restrooms. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.spe, pp.1458-1478.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.71746.

This is a qualitative and exploratory study that aims to reflect about the experiences of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people when using public bathrooms. We used the assumptions of documental research as a way of data production. To this end, we considered the content, comments and likes of the video entitled “Uma mulher trans deve frequentar o banheiro feminino?”, available on the Facebook platform. We took the discourse analysis as a guiding lens of the entire interpretive process. We pointed some central points for the debate: the structuring of a social classification system which places transvestites and trans women in dangerous categories; the fruitful relation established between the social categorization and classification systems and the gender and sexuality categories as organizers of the everyday life and the social spaces; the maintenance of discourses that ensure the binary dichotomous logic and, consequently, the pathologization of experiences of travestility and transsexuality; and the political articulation as a strategy which ensures, in spatialization processes, the overcoming of dynamics which naturalize violence that legitimizes interdictions and segregations. Finally, we observe as a point of convergence of all the analysis carried out the strategies for maintaining the life of transvestites and trans women people, through the destabilization of systems of oppression.

Keywords : gender identity; sexuality; public restrooms; sexism..

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