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Ana Beatriz Azevedo Queiroz1, Alison Malheiros de Castro1, Ana Luiza de Oliveira Carvalho1
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyze the social representations of nursing students about transsexuality and the health demands of transsexual people.
Methods:
Qualitative, descriptive research with undergraduate nursing students from a public university in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. The data came from a semi-structured interview and lexical analysis using Alceste 2012 software.
Results:
Transsexuality was represented as a transgression, with the transsexual person being objectified as unnatural because they do not identify with their biological sex. Hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgeries were understood as the main demands, being anchored in a pathologizing and medicalizing health sphere. However, the theme is not addressed during graduation, generating unpreparedness for professional life.
Final Considerations:
The need to update the academic curriculum, as well as the way of thinking about the care of transsexual people, is essential and urgent for an integral and equitable care.
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