The Gender of the Practices: An Ethnography with Healthcare Professionals, Transgender Children and Adolescents, and Their Families in a Service of the Unified Health System (SUS).

• Grant number: 24/06542-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Silvana de Souza Nascimento
• Grantee: Francisco Janis Borges Xavier de Gouveia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The emergence of specialized outpatient clinics and other health services for trans and/or "gender variable" children and adolescents in recent years indicates a specific historical, cultural, social and political configuration of qualifying and understanding childhoods and adolescence that are considered "deviant" from gender norms. This doctoral project proposes to carry out ethnographic research in a public health service of Primary Health Care intended for teaching, research and health care for trans children and adolescents and/or those with experiences of gender variability and their family members. I seek to investigate, inspired by praxiography, practices and materialities through which health professionals, families, trans children and adolescents "act" together and "collaborate" to make gender while gender will manifest itself through different materialities for each set of actors. Tracing the ontological politics of gender can produce fruitful comparisons between diagnosing and performing gender. The aim is also to explore, in the establishment of these of these collaborations, the multiple relations of power, supervision and guardianship involved between the agents. Considering that it is one of the few health services allocated in a Basic Health Unit (UBS) aimed at trans children and adolescents, the relevance of its study is highlighted from the point of view of singularity in health policies for the trans population , as well as the importance of tracking these care and knowledge practices for the field of health anthropology, science and gender studies. This research is expected to contribute to reflection on the trans population's access to the public health system, which raises other questions in the debate about the depathologization of trans minorities