Espera, paciência e resistência: reflexões antropológicas sobre transexualidades, curso da vida e itinerários de acesso à saúde

Abstract

This work is based on two investigations carried out in the city of Goiânia (Brazil), both focused on the issue of access to healthcare in the context of the Processo Transexualizador of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), focusing on the issue of waiting. The first one focused on the narratives of trans men and the second on those of trans women, about their trajectories and the therapeutic itineraries involved in the so called gender transition. Our argument is that waiting is an important anthropological key to interpreting such narratives. Our interest, then, is to put in dialogue ethnographic elements produced in these investigations, having as main axis a discussion around the ambivalences and tensions that arise in the relationships that such subjects establish with the issue of waiting. In this sense, we are also interested in bringing field elements in order to discuss anthropologically about the effects that heteronormative and cisnormative expectations around gender and life course produ ce in their bodies and their lives.