Beyond the binary

how discourses affect non-binary people’s access to gender-affirming healthcare

Authors

  • Jude de Oliveira Bento da Silva Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-081X
  • Carla Luã Eloi Pesquisadore independente

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.45466

Abstract

This text is a Portuguese translation of the Senior Thesis written by the north american author Lori Puopolo (PUOPOLO, 2018). Their study is based on researches that evidence how healthcare professionals use a transmedicalist
point of view to limit the access of trans people to gender-affirming heallthcare, in order to understand how the discourses diffused by them affect, specially, the access of non binary people to gender-affirming healthcare. Puopolo notices that these specialists resort to a dominant discourse about transgender individuals so as to control the bodies of non binary people. On acount of this discourse, they internalyze the medical perspective about transiotioning, thereby delaying their treatments. Puopolo discloses that non binary people utilyze the Internet to discuss and inform themselves about the options involving the medical transition, noticing that as they gather more information, they become more willing to search access to the procedures desired.

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Author Biography

Carla Luã Eloi, Pesquisadore independente

Formada em Produção Cultural pelo Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), tem pós-graduação
em Linguagens Artísticas, Cultura e Educação pela mesma instituição, e concluiu o mestrado em Artes, Cultura e Linguagem pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Atua também como consultor de Diversidade e Inclusão e é pessoa trans não binária negra.

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Published

2022-08-24

How to Cite

de Oliveira Bento da Silva, J., & Eloi, C. L. (2022). Beyond the binary: how discourses affect non-binary people’s access to gender-affirming healthcare. Revista Periódicus, 2(17), 173–191. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.45466

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 17 (2022): Plural Film Culture

Section

Free section

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