Abstract

SILVA, Tailson dos Santos  and  SOUZA, Elaine de Jesus. Transgender and intersexuality in Genetics Teaching: Limits and possibilities for a post-critical Biology. Educ. Form. [online]. 2025, vol.10, e15319.  Epub Oct 20, 2025. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v10.e15319.

This work aims to analyze the limits and possibilities for a post-critical Biology through Queer Sexual Education, aiming to problematize essentialist discourses in the Teaching of Genetics for the (re)cognition of multiple identities/differences, such as (trans)genders and (inter)sexuals. Although distinct, both are socioculturally delegitimized and/or pathologized for deviating from cisheteronormativity. To this end, we developed a lesson plan related to the Teaching of Genetics in a Queer approach, making it possible to extrapolate biological limits and assume sociocultural issues about bodies, genders and sexualities. As biologist-educators, we problematize essentialist discourses, seeking to (de)construct knowledge and practices on such themes, through cultural artifacts, such as films and music. Thus, we point out problematizations to question essentialist and fundamentalist discourses based on biological determinism, seeking (re)knowledge about the diversity of bodies from the subversion of queer approaches, by encouraging the (de)construction of a post-critical, plural and transitory Biology.

Keywords : Biology; intersexuality; Genetics; transgender..

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