Protocoling gender: practices, technologies and formalizations of gender in the experience of space trans (HC-UFPE)

Abstract

This article is the result of a thesis project that aims to analyze the gender standardization networks built from the relationship between transgenders, professionals and technologies / protocols involved in the transsexualizing process, in an attempt to contribute to the deepening of the debate on gender and corporality , besides thinking about the debate about the social, thinking about the associations made when there are several actors in the network. Methodologically it circumscribes its field to the Trans Care and Reception Space at Hospital das Clínicas (UFPE), opting for participant observation, narrative interviews with users and professionals and documentary analysis of the protocols / ordinances involved in the transsexualizing process. As a theoretical basis for the conception of gender will be used the works of Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling, medicalization of the modern world observed by Peter Conrad and Michel Foucault, and to think about the stabilization and normalization of networks: Susan Leigh Star and Bruno Latour. From these points, questions and possibilities to think about the technologies of the genre will be raised.