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Topics trans and something more.
Transgender Community in Portugal
A group of seven people with the financial support of the Portuguese AIDS Association
Abraço in collaboration with the CNLCS – National Commission of Fight Against AIDS, had made a very interesting research about trans community in Portugal, a reality that was unknown for the rest of the world and also for the own country.
Analysis of APA and WHO Manuals about identity disorders
October 11 was the celebration of the Trans day in Europe, this is an event that had twelve years of existence, and
this year was dedicated to pathological condition of transsexuality. Many groups asking APA and WHO stop considering transexuality and transsexualism as a mental disorder.
Transgender and Transsexual Identities: The Next Strange Fruit—Hate Crimes, Violence and Genocide Against the Global Trans-Communities
In this paper, we review the literature on global transgender hate crimes, violence, and abuse. We point out that it is possible to infer that this problem is not localized to the United States but rather, represents a global pandemic of focused prejudice. We point out that it can be viewed not only as an extremely serious and immediate public health problem, but also as genocide against a consistently invisibilized minority population. We provide concrete examples from the researchers’ field studies as well as from the published literature.
What is the body?
This is a reflection about how the body is conceptualizing in its cultural and not biological dimension, to understand how Tran’s identity deconstructed the body.
I change and my body changes
Nowadays, legislation around the world has started to accept transsexuality and that is why those people who feel they belong to the other gender are allowed to legally change their sex and name. The legislation allows changes to the body using hormonal treatment or surgery. Below is a resume of the options for physical interventions, which considers the advantages and disadvantages of each treatment option.
Transvestite, Transsexual, Transgender: Chronology of concepts
There is not only one way to define the identities of the trans community because all are under construction and are constantly changing. We offer a historical approach to understand from where they came from but not where they are going.
