Gender and coloniality as markers of/in the health actions of the transmasculine population

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i22.64505

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In debates about gender, the presence of trans men and transmasculine people has been increasingly significant, making it essential to expand knowledge about issues relating to this population. As a result, this article aims to debate how issues of gender and coloniality are markers that permeate the health actions of the transmasculine population in northeastern Brazil, discussing these processes based on the life trajectories of trans men/transmasculine people monitored through of an ethnocartographic route developed in the city of Recife (PE). The results point to the need for greater problematization of cisgenderity as a category that guides the diagnostic construction of transgenderity, correlating with the colonial matrix of power. Among the many findings of the research - which discussed the multiplicities in the constitution of being/becoming a man that cross the experiences of trans men/transmasculine people in northeastern Brazil - we highlight in this article access to health and its impacts on comprehensive care on the part of of trans men/transmasculine people.

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Benjamin Vanderlei dos Santos, Maurício de Nassau University Center

Doctor of Psychology. Professor at the Mário Pontes Jucá University Center – UMJ and UNINASSAU (Maceió/AL).

Maria Teresa Nobre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

PhD in Sociology. Professor in the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (PPGPsi/UFRN).

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2025-09-04

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Vanderlei dos Santos, B., & Nobre, M. T. (2025). Gender and coloniality as markers of/in the health actions of the transmasculine population. Revista Periódicus, 1(22), 127–142. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i22.64505

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Vol. 1 No. 22 (2025): Continuous Article Publishing

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