Necessidades em saúde de pessoas transgêneras, transexuais, travestis e não-binárias

Abstract

Introduction: Health needs are a central concept for formulating health interventions and practices. However, LGBTQIAPN+ individuals, especially those who identify as transgender, transsexual, travesti, and nonbinary, have faced difficulties in having their health needs and demands recognized and legitimized by society. Objective: To understand the health needs of this population. Methodology: This is a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study that used snowball sampling and data collection through the Focus Group (FG) technique. Two in-person meetings were held with different audiences: the first was open to the public within the CELLOS collective, which provides legal services to LGBTQIAPN+ individuals and their families; and the second was closed to members of the Cintura Fina collective, which promotes participation and political advocacy within UFMG through the trans student union. Bardin's content analysis technique was used, listing categories of analysis. Results: Three main categories emerged: the first, "Expanded Conceptions of Health," with the topics: "Voices on Health," "Between Open and Closed Doors," and "Health that Demands Itself," which discuss expanded notions of health, symbolic barriers to access, and forms of resistance in the face of service impasses. The second, "Social Relations as Determinants of Health," with two topics: "Rebuilding Bonds and Social Recognition," highlighting experiences of support and family ruptures and how society deals with trans existence. The third category, "Institutional Violence," with its topics: "Closed Doors, Open Windows" and "Learning to Be in Spaces that Exclude," which address experiences of institutional violence in the health and education sectors. Conclusion: The health needs of the trans population are still denied on a daily basis, and access to services, as well as their demands, are made invisible, creating a sense of dehumanization for these individuals, whose rights and even their very existence are put at risk from the moment they assert their identities.