As contradições da patologização das identidades trans e argumentos para a mudança de paradigma

Abstract

The experience of trans identities does not fit the concept of any disease, or any psychopathology, especially because it is impossible to establish diagnostic criteria consistent with the reality of the diversity of the experiences of people living trans identities. This means that the logic of pathologizing has historically proven much more effort to maintain hierarchies of knowledge and scientific power as forms of regulation of social norms and coercion to gender norms than actually creating mechanisms and criteria attention and care to full health. The historical process of pathologization and psychiatrization of transidentities generates losses of several orders to trans people, denying the dignity, the relative self-determination and possible autonomy over their own bodies, reducing their experiencies to stereotypes and homogenizing prescriptive descriptions.