Abstract
In this article we discuss the process of production of meanings around trans-specific health care and its relationship with trans* rights and citizenship, which we develop from a dialogue with 11 people, between users, doctors, and employees of a health service for trans* people located in a capital city in southern Brazil. We interviewed the participants and the analyzed the information based on recursive problematization. The results are organized around two webs of meanings. On the one hand, we analyze the significance and power of the demands made by trans* people in the field of trans-specific health care, pointing out their relationship with an ethic committed to what is excluded by the regimes of truth and with the guarantee of new streams of intelligibility. On the other hand, we analyze the requirements for the constitution of the health care space for trans* people as an area of concretization of trans* citizenship, which is meant to be assured not only by access to the health sector, but also by the characteristics of the offer, its formalization, the maintenance and the institutionalization of care for trans* people.
Keywords:
Transsexuality; Gender diversity; Accessibility to health services; Human rights; Public anti-discrimination policies