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

• Main Authors: José Arturo Granados Cosme (Author), Pedro Alberto Hernández Ramírez (Author), Omar Alejandro Olvera Muñoz (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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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...