Sexual orientation and sex reassignment surgery: trans women’s experience with passing and maintaining intimate relationships
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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i16.34724Abstract
This study problematizes the categories of heterosexual women and non-transmedicalized women, used to
select interviewees for the research ‘Intimate experiences of travestis and transgender women.’ We discuss the notions of
biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity and which assumptions are used to define transgender people’s
sexual orientation; as well as the need for sex reassignment surgery to differentiate between travestis and transgender
women. Its approach is self-ethnographic, for one of the authors is a heterosexual and non-transmedicalized transsexual
woman (at the time of writing). Passing emerges as a primary reference for maintaining an aesthetic legitimacy of
transition and as a factor that minimizes the violence and transphobia experienced. Finally, we analyze how these elements
(sexual orientation, reassignment surgery, and passing) help maintain the intimate relationships these women experience.
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