Protoforms of the Transsexualizing Process in Brazil: notes on the tortuous institutionalization of health care for Trans people in SUS between 1997 and 2008

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the Transsexualization Process in Brazil from the examination of its historical constitution between 1997 and 2008. This study privileged the years prior to its institutionalization in 2008, with the initial milestone being the authorization by the Federal Council of Medicine, in 1997, for doctors to perform experimental transgenitalization surgeries within the four pioneering university hospitals in this modality of care in the country. We tried to understand the limits and possibilities of this process, trying to identify the role played by some of the main political subjects who acted in this scenario. It is understood that the re-examination of these origins, the understanding about the characteristics of pre-institutionalization services and some of their limitations are fundamental for the understanding of the Programme today, thus contributing to the elucidation and facing of its numerous challenges