Transexual Women and Tranvestites Survivors

Where are the Trans Womens in Sorocaba?

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the erasures, non-access and absences of transsexual women in social institutions, considered here as: family, school, formal work and the State. The research methodology is based on bibliographical and documentary research, and the qualitative method, in order to rescue, denounce, honor all the (re)existence of our study subjects, aiming to understand how transsexual/transvestite women, residents of the city from Sorocaba/SP, considered "survivors" for staying alive, above the life expectancy of 35 years or more, understand the world in which they were inserted, the challenges faced from the moment they were expelled from family life as children, and they are forced to survive, with only the marginalization of their bodies as an alternative. What strategies and how do they recalculate the route to continue existing, even when they are considered old, and their bodies are no longer considered worthy of existing? Statistics prove that Brazil is the country that kills the most in the world, even so, the cisheteronormative system continues with its social astigmatism, ignoring its claims for Rights, for Education and opportunities in the labor market, and repeatedly asks us the same question: Where are the trans women?