Passing narratives and the safety to transit: transmasculinities and health

Abstract

The article starts from the narratives of trans men about passing to think about the meanings of passability and the relationship they weave with the safety to transit on the streets of cities like Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso. The research subjects live the paradox of seeking recognition of their existence and visibility, at the same time they crave passability so that they enjoy an invisibility that makes their circulation through urban environments less subject to physical and symbolic violence. From their point of view, public restrooms and streets have grammars that exclude those that do not correspond to the binary intelligibility of gender. The discussion points to the need for public policies that guarantee access to outpatient health services in the Transsexualizing Process of the SUS, in which hormonal therapies are essential for the achievement of passability.