Quando a escola é uma tragédia na vida de alguém: estratégias e sobrevivências de travestis e transexuais no ambiente escolar

Abstract

The present study’s objective is to analyze which strategies transexual men as Middle Grade and High School students developed to stay in school. The specific objectives were to explore which challenges they faced during this period, and how was the reception found there. The research happened in the following steps: literature review for the assessment of categories which guided the interviews and through which they were analyzed, regarding the themes of gender, sex, and sexuality; field research, for the researcher to get closer to their collaborators, with semi-structured interviews, a preestablished and flexible script, which tried to investigate how the school environment was receptive to the participants, and how this shaped out challenges to stay in school; data analysis, that occurred through an exchange between the knowledge acquired through the literature review and the situations and strategies most referred to during the interviews, by means of elaborating the categories for analysis. With these steps, the results of this research were to demonstrate how cisheteronormativity becomes a way of social control of trans people, and how that limits the social spaces in which their stay is accepted and welcomed.