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LIBOREIRO, Bianca de Araújo  y  CALZAVARA, Maria Gláucia Pires. "You can be whatever you want!: " is it true? Psychoanalysis, Sex, and Gender. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21i2.e11129.

This article starts with a clinical case, assisted at the Psychology Service of a university, whose demand, brought by the mother, was to continue the treatment of her daughter, who had started at the age of six. In her report, what was being done was the possibility of reassigning the child's sex. She was eight years old when we started the work. Anatomically, it is a girl and presents stereotypes of a boy. In this case, our attention is drawn to the phrase said by the mother to the child at the age of three, when she asked her if it was a boy or a girl: "I told my daughter that she could be whatever she wants". Faced with this statement to the daughter at such a young age, we asked about the incidence of the mother's word in the meaning of the child's identity. Likewise, the treatment already started by a psychologist, when the patient was six years old, who guided the possibility of sex reassignment, made us a question, supported by psychoanalysis, the issues related to sex and gender in the subjects and the direction of treatment in children. Furthermore, the issues with the body presented by the patient required an understanding of how to face such early demands for sex reassignment. In the analytical path so far, we sought, through the word, to bring out the possibility of knowing about the child's sex. In addition, the contradiction present in the incidence of the Other's word in its guiding and devastating elements in the subject's life was confronted, and the constant critical reflection of psychological practice was faced. Bet on psychoanalysis and listening to the individual aimed at allowing something more unique of his desire to be presented and heard.

Palabras clave : psychoanalysis; identity; sexuality; gender; children's clinic.

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