Estudantes transexuais e travestis, acessibilidade, direitos e formação na Universidade Federal Fluminense

Abstract

The present research work analyzed the experiences of transvestite and transsexual students of the Federal Fluminense University regarding the access and permanence in the Public University. These new subjects, long excluded and absent from the university context, are increasingly occupying these spaces facing the difficulties and stigma of being a trans student. Thus, from the four life histories of trans students from the Federal University of Fluminense, themes such as childhood and family, the school period and the search for the university were analyzed, as well as other themes that permeate the lives of trans people such as the process transsexualizador, the social name, the rectification of the civil registry and the public toilet. Other aspects of the university environment are also analyzed as the relationship with the academic community, the transphobia, the collective, the militancy and the expectations after the academic formation. The delimited periods were the first semester of 2018, and a total of 37 trans students were found in five UFF campuses that used the social name and students graduated between 2014 and 2017 who made use of the social name, and found 9 students, on 2 UFF campuses. In view of these contexts, it is assumed that the narratives of the students will enable a more complete and solidary view of the processes of construction of these identities that break with the heteronormative pattern and go in search of basic rights such as access to education.