Performatividad del género, medicalización y salud en mujeres transexuales en Ciudad de México

Bibliographic Data

ID15530819
AuthorsJose Arturo Granados Cosme (0000-0002-0583-1239, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, corresponding author), Pedro Alberto Hernández Ramírez (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), Omar Alejandro Olvera Muñoz (0000-0002-2511-3445, Universidad Marista)
Year2017
Volume13
Issue4
Pages633-633
Publication date2017-12-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSalud Colectiva (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1669-2381 • E-ISSN: 1851-8265
PublisherInstituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (PUBLISHER • AR)
DOI10.18294/sc.2017.1363
PMID29340443
OpenAlexW2773724317
LanguageES
Citations received6
References cited11

The World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association consider transsexuality a pathology and suggest sex-gender reassignment for the biopsychic adjustment of trans people. Through the discursive analysis of experience, this study describes the processes of medicalization and gender performativity in relation to the health of a group of trans women from Mexico City. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted in which 10 semi-structured interviews were carried out in 2015. As part of medicalization, the pathologization of transsexuality generated psychic suffering; on the other hand, sex-gender reassignment also entailed additional risks. It is possible to conclude that in trans women, violence and exclusion constitute the primary experiences explaining their foremost health problems. Therefore, it is suggested that it is necessary for discrimination be reduced and for advancements to be made in safer medical interventions

Art · Gender violence · Humanities · Medicalization · Persona · Psychiatry · Psychic · Sociology · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology