O lugar de jovens trans na escola: os percursos e experiências trans na escola

Abstract

This research aims to understand the pertinent and complex theme about the educational path and experiences of transsexual young people at school, inquiring what their place is and giving them voices. It has as research questions: How is the relationship of Trans people with their classmates and education professionals? What are the constraints and limitations that they may suffer at school and what are the possibilities of resistance of Trans students in face of the heteronormative system of the school? The methodological path is based on a perspective of life stories as a fundamental methodology, which emphasizes experiences, allowing the construction and reconstruction of meanings through language, empowering the voices of its narrator through analysis. 4 Trans men and 2 Trans women, aged between 17 and 30 years, from two Brazilian states were interviewed. Among the conclusions we reached, we understand that school is still an unsafe place for most Trans Young People because it brings within itself the determinations that society establishes and rejects new identities that do not follow heterosexual norms. However, through the participants' reports, we realized that the school is also a place of possibilities, which can forge tools so that they can feel that they belong to the community, as it has the power to dialogue, clarify, empower and could promote the rescue of the dignity of Trans people.