"Mulheres de verdade": análise crítica acerca das reportagens que tratam as possibilidades de aplicação da Lei Maria da Penha para travestis e transexuais

Abstract

The law nº 11.340, from August 7th of 2006, known as ―Lei Maria da Penha‖, holds its enforcement to protect women victimized by domestic violence. With the transformations that society has undergone throughout history, concerning gender and sexual diversity, it came across the matter of the referred law‘s comprehensiveness to transsexual and transvestite women. This paper aims to ascertain and analise the media publishing concerning how the referred law is applied to transsexual and transvestite women, which also undergo many forms of violence in the family environment. To this end, a documental analysis was performed, based on State and private information in order to grasp the possibilities in which the Law could be applied to the aforementioned group. Ten articles, published between the years 2006, 2014, 2015, were selected based on a Thematic Content Analysis. The findings point to some questions that are repeated in the dissemination and implementation of the Maria da Penha Law. For an example of an important subject, there is a discussion about the conditioning of the law enforcement to reassignment surgery and the change of the name.