Corpos Dissidentes e Produção de Subjetividades: cartografia da estigmatização e resistência de jovens trans no interior de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the processes of stigmatization experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals, with an emphasis on gender dissidence, based on the narratives of young people undergoing gender transition. It seeks to understand how these processes shape the production of subjectivities throughout the life course. The study is grounded in the assumption that stigmatization is not limited to isolated events but constitutes a continuous process articulated through power dispositive that regulate bodies and modes of existence. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Foucault, Goffman, and Butler, the research adopts a qualitative approach guided by the cartographic method, using semi-structured interviews conducted through a triggering question. Data were produced in a Reference Center for Comprehensive Trans-Specific Healthcare, a setting that constitutes a privileged field for listening to experiences related to stigmatization and gender dissidence. The findings reveal that stigmatization operates transversally across different contexts, including family, school, work, and public institutions, through processes of invisibilization, silencing, violence, and denial of rights. These dynamics produce significant effects on the (re)production of subjectivities. At the same time, participants’ narratives highlight strategies of resistance and (re)existence through which individuals construct singular ways of living that challenge cisheteronormative norms. The study concludes that stigmatization functions as a central dispositive in the production of inequalities, while also constituting a field of dispute in which resistance and possibilities for social transformation emerge.