As Representações da(o)s transexuais nas aldeias arquivos do TJRS. O Poder da nomeação, eis a grande questão

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the representations of transsexuals in the Court of Rio Grande do Sul (TJRS). The demands of these subjects, mostly, that advocate changing their papers, seeking adequacy the name and (sometimes) their gender to their identity at the expense and/or compared to hormonal/surgical treatments. Thus, we analyzed fourteen (14) judgments from the alluded Court, in search held in the month of April 2012. The considerations presented are based on these legal rulings that were made from, especially, ethnography with processes/documents. After these considerations, I start discussions with a theoretical review, guided by the analytical categories of deviance, of power, of knowledge, of truth and of gender. To sustain it, or support it, I follow in the footsteps of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Howard Becker. Immediately thereafter, I've made an analysis the proper clippings that led me to TJRS, finishing the dissertation with a analysis about the power of both nomination, as to transsexuals as to our existence.