Abstract

LINO, Adriane Cristiane Lopes  and  DUQUE, Tiago. Gender “camouflage” experiences: trans people and the use of the social name in a public university in the Brazilian Midwest. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.59, pp.261-283.  Epub May 30, 2022. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v27i59.1578.

This article analyzes the use of the social name by trans people (transvestites, transsexuals, and non-binaries persons) in a public university in the Brazilian Midwest. Through semi-structured interviews and the post-critical theoretical framework in Education, we discussed the experiences of four university students in search of recognition, by name, of the gender with which they identify themselves. We point out how the social name becomes important, but it does not necessarily solve all the difficulties of access and permanence in university education. The qualitative analysis of the data indicates the legal weaknesses that establish the use of the social name and, at the same time, the normative cultural limits of the processes of production of gender identities in a post-identity perspective, that is, beyond the trans subjects in themselves. We concluded that the social name use composes a gender visibility regime that favors a “camouflage”, allowing a certain “social life”, strategically managed in different contexts, especially at the university.

Keywords : social name; university; recognition.

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