As políticas públicas e a intervenção do serviço social às mulheres trans

Abstract

Present work proposes to discuss central issues and point out strengths and weaknesses in the way the government, civil society and other social subjects have been facing. the challenge of guaranteeing sexual and citizenship rights, through public policies, for LGBT people (lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites, transsexuals and transgenders). Emphasis is on trans women, who are still seen by many as non-legitimate subjects to claim rights to have their physical integrity, moral autonomy and existential freedom protected by the State. It is important to emphasize that the humanity of these people is systematically questioned or even denied, based on heteronormative, naturalizing and religious beliefs and traditions, incompatible with the principles of respect for dignity, guarantee of autonomy and protection of freedom, which in principle characterize democratic societies. Thus, the concern about this issue arose as a result of the curricular internship that the author carried out at CAPS and from the care provided to trans women inserted in this servisse. Gaps in the access of this population to health services and their precariousness were observed. This study emphasizes the problem of how trans women access public policies and what is the role of the social worker arising from these demands. The main objective proposed was to understand how the trajectory of trans women takes place in accessing public policies and whether these policies are in fact effective in achieving changes in the Brazilian political and legal scenario. In order to understand about public policies, gender issues, transsexualism, transphobia as an expression of the social issue and the role of the social worker in policies involving transsexuals, a bibliographic and documentary research was carried out, based on the critical dialectical method. of reading reality and the categories, historicity, totality, mediation and contradiction. In conclusion, it is emphasized that, despite a relative abundance of government documents and events that provide dialogue between the government and the LGBT population, the great challenge is to transform the incipient public policies, gestated over the last few years, especially from 2004, in effective State policies, which are not at the mercy of the good will of government officials and the uncertainties arising from the lack of a legal framework to combat homophobia and promote LGBT citizenship. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]