Towards a "transitioning": Biographical clues on gender transition, malaise, and health services in Chile
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Towards a "transitioning" : Biographical clues on gender transition, malaise, and health services in Chile. / Vasquez-Saavedra, Cristian; Abarca-Brown, Gabriel; Arensburg Castelli, Svenska.
In: Ciencia e Saude Coletiva, Vol. 27, No. 1, 01.2022, p. 243-252.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Towards a "transitioning"
T2 - Biographical clues on gender transition, malaise, and health services in Chile
AU - Vasquez-Saavedra, Cristian
AU - Abarca-Brown, Gabriel
AU - Arensburg Castelli, Svenska
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - We analyze how the interactions be-tween the trans population and the Chilean healthcare system shape specific processes of mal-aise associated with gender transition ("tran-sito de genero"). Adopting psychoanalytic and transfeminist conceptual approaches, as well as a biographical methodology, we examine autobi-ographical narratives of three trans subjects. We discuss three topics: childhood as a critical peri-od for gender transition and malaise; the role of institutions; and the ways through which subjects manage malaise. We argue that trans subjects face specific sociocultural conditions that lead to unique processes of malaise associated with gen-der transition. We show how politicization and the construction of an institutional framework, bodily aesthetical modifications, and the self-ad-ministration of medical knowledge emerge as some of the paths to navigate the gender transi-tion process. Besides, we foreground the notion of "transitioning" ("transicionar") by considering the criticism voiced by the participants. By using this notion, they interrogate the rigidity and psy-chopathologization of identity that is implicitly present in the notion of gender transition, as well as they enrich the transfeminist discourse in favor of their agency/autonomy.
AB - We analyze how the interactions be-tween the trans population and the Chilean healthcare system shape specific processes of mal-aise associated with gender transition ("tran-sito de genero"). Adopting psychoanalytic and transfeminist conceptual approaches, as well as a biographical methodology, we examine autobi-ographical narratives of three trans subjects. We discuss three topics: childhood as a critical peri-od for gender transition and malaise; the role of institutions; and the ways through which subjects manage malaise. We argue that trans subjects face specific sociocultural conditions that lead to unique processes of malaise associated with gen-der transition. We show how politicization and the construction of an institutional framework, bodily aesthetical modifications, and the self-ad-ministration of medical knowledge emerge as some of the paths to navigate the gender transi-tion process. Besides, we foreground the notion of "transitioning" ("transicionar") by considering the criticism voiced by the participants. By using this notion, they interrogate the rigidity and psy-chopathologization of identity that is implicitly present in the notion of gender transition, as well as they enrich the transfeminist discourse in favor of their agency/autonomy.
KW - Healthcare system
KW - Mental health
KW - Transgender
KW - Psychic suffering
KW - Personal narratives
U2 - 10.1590/1413-81232022271.31912020
DO - 10.1590/1413-81232022271.31912020
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35043903
VL - 27
SP - 243
EP - 252
JO - Ciencia e Saude Coletiva
JF - Ciencia e Saude Coletiva
SN - 1413-8123
IS - 1
ER -
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