Abstract

HENRIQUES, Rogério da Silva Paes  and  LEITE, André Filipe dos Santos. Gender Dysphoria as a American Cultural Syndrome. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.3, e56662.  Epub Sep 01, 2019. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n356662.

The diagnosis "gender dysphoria", proposed by the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), is presented as a American "cultural syndrome". This illustrates the expansionist tendency of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to regiment gender-based transit experiences that escape the matrix of intelligibility centered around the male / female. Against this diagnosis, forged by American binary thinking, in the mold of the so-called disease mongering, we oppose the experience of the Brazilian travesti as a radical alterity to the established gender intelligibility matrix.

Keywords : Gender dysphoria; Cultural syndrome; DSM-5; Disease mongering; Brazilian travesti.

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