Intransigent Legislation: Public Policy analysis on the reality of Trans live

Autores/as

  • Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera Universidad de Costa Rica/ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Maria Itayra Padilha Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Palabras clave:

Transexuality. Public Policies. Legislation & Jurisprudence. Necropolitics.

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ABSTRACT

This paper engages in a comparative analysis of trans-positive political frameworks in Brazil, Canada, and Costa Rica. Our analysis focused on the protection of trans rights and access to gender-affirmative and trans-positive health care, as well as the legal mechanisms involved in changing ones name and gender designator. The information was gathered from January 2014 to September 2015, through virtual research in the official government websites and in the following databases: Medline, LILACS, SciELO and Google Scholar. The paper restricts this analysis in highlighting the necropower of Law and Medicine as instituted forces that throughout the “normalizing”, homogenizing, moralizing, psychiatrizing and pathologizing process, dictate in society their rules. It is concluded that the human rights with regards access to the health and judicial systems, remain based on an invisible or psychiatric model. Therefore, in the examined countries we can conclude that the advancing steps show relatively limited progress, perhaps, because the gender perspective is still absent from the social debate.

Biografía del autor/a

Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera, Universidad de Costa Rica/ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Profesor e investigador de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Doctorando en Enfermería del Programa de Post-Grado en Enfermería de la Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/Brasil (PEN/UFSC). Máster en Enfermería por el PEN/UFSC. Especialista en Salud Internacional del Fenómeno de las Drogas por el Centre for Addictions and Mental Healht/Toronto, Canadá. E-mail: jaimealonso.caravaca@ucr.ac.cr

Maria Itayra Padilha, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doctora en Enfermería.  Profesora Titular del Departamento de Enfermería y del PEN/UFSC.  Investigadora del CNPq. E-mail: padilha@ccs.ufsc.br

Publicado

2016-09-30

Cómo citar

Caravaca-Morera, J. A., & Padilha, M. I. (2016). Intransigent Legislation: Public Policy analysis on the reality of Trans live. aúde & Transformação ocial ealth ∓ ocial hange, 7(3), 59–70. ecuperado a partir de https://incubadora.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/saudeetransformacao/article/view/4152

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