«Nós sofremos violência todo dia!»: Representações sociais e vivências de violência para pessoas transgêneras

Abstract

Brazil is the country where there are more cases of transvestite and transsexual murders in the world, and, on the face of it, it is necessary to know how violence is thought and felt by these subjects. This study analyzed the social representations (RS) about violence for the "T" (transgender) population of Belo Horizonte. For this purpose, 9 (nine) semi-structured interviews and content analysis were carried out through Iramuteq® software. The subjects interviewed are transvestite and transsexual people residing in Belo Horizonte / MG, included for availability and convenience. The RS of violence is related to what is lived personally and socially by this population, and is organized into four classes: (a) experiences (b) institutions and transitional process, (c) identity and gender and (d) body and social experience. Faced with real, historical and experiential violence towards transgendered people analyzed, there is a need for government actions to support this population that has marks of violence in its history, social experience and ways of thinking, feeling and acting