From “Secret” to “We Exist!”: some notes on gender expectations around transmasculinities in the Brazilian media

Abstract

This article analyzes a report shown by Rede Globo about the death of a trans man in the city of Campo Grande, comparing it with part of the theoretical production of social sciences on the so-called transsexualities, with other media productions produced by trans people and also interviews conducted with trans men in the metropolitan region of Goiânia. Thus, it anthropologically addresses the contemporary process of discursive profusion on the theme of transmasculinities in the Brazilian media, in order to point to possible ambivalences around the (re)production of symbolic repertoires from it.