Abstract
ABSTRACT In this text, we reflect on the formative process and the professional performance of a transsexual teacher, based on the policies of bodily subjectivity and gender inscribed in the field of education. As for methodology, a qualitative post-critical approach was used, through the accomplishment of narrative interview. The narratives contribute to the beginning and/or development of the deconstruction of educational practices marked by the principle of normative regulation, stating that education can also be a field of (dis)learning of gender regulations, through the insertion, permanence and destabilization that transsexuals, as people, perform.
Highlights
We present the story of Adriana Lohana dos Santos: brunette, curly hair, 29 years old, with transsexual as a gender identity, heterosexual, with a major in Language and Social Work and elementary and high school teacher
In demonstrating Lohana’s process as a student at school and university and, later, as a elementary and high school teacher, we can use it as an example to discuss how a trans body becomes “foreign” in the educational field, which proposes mobility, fluidity and fragmentation in the representations and imaginaries of hegemonic masculinities and femininities to the school agents. Reflecting on her narratives, it is possible to understand that questions about body, gender and sexualities in the curriculum, school practice and teacher training have always been a challenge for educators — according to Dias et al (2015), since they propose the debate, deconstructions and destabilization of male and female images based mainly on heteronormativity
With the change of her name to Adriana Lohana dos Santos and female social gender held in her registry, she left the school in question to work as a teacher for the public-school system, through her approval in selection processes of tests and titles in the municipality of Lagarto, in the center-south of the state of Sergipe
Summary
We present the story of Adriana Lohana dos Santos: brunette, curly hair, 29 years old, with transsexual as a gender identity, heterosexual, with a major in Language and Social Work and elementary and high school teacher. Reflecting on her narratives, it is possible to understand that questions about body, gender and sexualities in the curriculum, school practice and teacher training have always been a challenge for educators — according to Dias et al (2015) —, since they propose the debate, deconstructions and destabilization of male and female images based mainly on heteronormativity.
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