Práticas informacionais de pessoas transexuais na (re)invenção de si

Abstract

Objective: to identify the information demands of transgender people in the process of building their identities, based on the conflict with the gender designated at birth, identifying the contradictions and barriers faced by them in these processes, as well as the strategies used to overcome these difficulties Methodology: qualitative research, based on a semi-structured script to guide interviews about life stories, from which categories of analysis of informational practices were taken, which were discussed based on concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice. Results: the sex/gender system, historically constituted, results in several barriers to accessing information for people who experience conflicts with the designated gender at birth. These people occupying a heterodox space in the “gender field”, producing and sharing information about transsexualities in daily practice. Conclusions: Transgender people access and share information in daily practice, given the precariousness of education and health services in producing and sharing knowledge about this phenomenon. The knowledge constructed by transgender men and women is ephemeral, produced by many hands, and impacts the rigidity of classifications produced by medicine, transforming them. Descriptors: Information Practices. Transsexual. Transgender. Sociology of Practice.