Gender performativity, medicalization and health in transsexual women in Mexico City

The World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association consider transsexuality a pathology and suggest sex-gender reassignment for the biopsychic adjustment of trans people. Through the discursive analysis of experience, this study describes the processes of medicalization and gend...

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Main Authors: José Arturo Granados Cosme, Pedro Alberto Hernández Ramírez, Omar Alejandro Olvera Muñoz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús 2017-12-01
Series:Salud Colectiva
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Online Access:http://revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcolectiva/article/view/1363