Gender performativity, medicalization and health in transsexual women in Mexico City

Gender performativity, medicalization and health in transsexual women in Mexico City

The World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association consider transsexuality a pathology and suggest sex-gender reassignment for the biopsychic adjustment of trans people. Through the discursive analysis of experience, this study describes the processes of medicalization and gend...

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Main Authors: José Arturo Granados Cosme, Pedro Alberto Hernández Ramírez, Omar Alejandro Olvera Muñoz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús 2017-12-01
Series:Salud Colectiva
Subjects:
Transexualidad
Género
Discriminación
México
Online Access:http://revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcolectiva/article/view/1363

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