The article examines health itineraries followed by Brazilian travestis, trans men and trans women in the affirmation of their gender, based on the survey Trans Uerj: Health and Citizenship of Trans People in Brazil. The survey’s main objectives were to gauge the trans/travesti population’s diversity and sociodemographic profile; and to map the various ways they access their rights as citizens, especially to healthcare services and body modification technologies. Interviewers, mainly trans people and travestis, applied 391 questionnaires in the city of Rio de Janeiro and its metropolitan region to interviewees of different social classes, schooling levels and gender identity configurations, contacted through the interviewers’ social networks. For defining respondents’ gender identities the survey used an original method based on self-definitions, which were then aggregated into 6 categories for data analysis purposes. This article discusses the multiple strategies used by this trans population in gender affirmation processes to gain access to regulated and/or unregulated use of hormones and surgical procedures.

Resumo Este artigo procura narrar a história contada sobre três edições do concurso de beleza Miss Boneca Pop (1974-76), certame para travestis realizado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro nos anos de 1974, 1975 e 1976. No ano de 2012, tais concursos foram rememorados com o objetivo de dar certa legitimidade e tradição ao Miss T Brasil, concurso de beleza para travestis e mulheres transexuais que então se iniciava. Fazendo uso de matérias jornalísticas da época, fotos pessoais e narrativa de uma candidata de duas dessas edições, e bibliografia pertinente aos temas, procuro aqui fazer a arqueologia do Miss Boneca Pop em sua relação com o Miss T Brasil (2012-15), em especial na tradição que este criou para si com base naquele.

Resumo O presente artigo constitui-se num relato de experiências de profissionais da Psicologia vivenciadas nos Centros de Cidadania LGBT do Programa Rio sem Homofobia, no período em que este programa e seus Centros de Cidadania estiveram plenamente ativos e presentes em diferentes pontos do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Este programa é vinculado à Superintendência de Direitos Individuais, Coletivos e Difusos da então Secretaria de Assistência Social e Direitos Humanos do estado do Rio de Janeiro (SUPERDir/SEASDH) e tem como objetivos gerais o combate às homo, lesbo, bi e transfobias, bem como a promoção da cidadania LGBT. A partir de alguns casos por nós acompanhados, discutimos possibilidades de intervenção que se colocassem ao lado do movimento de ampliação da potência de vida dos(as) usuários(as) do serviço, principalmente pela proposta de intervenções interdisciplinares e articuladas com o contexto da demanda e/ou violação. Desta forma, reiteramos a importância de construirmos o campo das práticas psi atravessado por um trabalho em rede pautado por questões relacionadas aos Direitos Humanos, movimento social e políticas públicas.

This article examines the construction of parenthood, drawing on Brazilian cisgender, heterosexual, and homosexual couples' experiences in using assisted reproduction technologies (ART), particularly the surrogacy. For that purpose, we interviewed: 1) a lesbian woman who had her daughter through her partner's pregnancy, using ART with anonymous donor semen; 2) a gay man who, together with his partner, used a surrogacy service under contract via a specialised offshore agency; 3) a woman who was a surrogate, in Brazil, for her sister-in-law and brother who lived abroad and, from abroad, sent an embryo fertilised for surrogacy; 4) a woman who resorted to her sister-in-law in order to be a mother by surrogacy, with ovules from the woman herself fertilised with semen from her husband; and 5) the sister-in-law mentioned in 4), who acted as surrogate for her brother and his wife. These interviews made it possible to think about the discursive construction of the legitimacy of such parenthoods, as it is produced by access to, and manipulation and circulation of, reproductive technologies and persons. This biomedical management of bodies sets up a material and discursive circuit that, in turn, produces a complex web of personal, normative, legal, professional and market relationships, particularly with a view to construction of a parenthood anchored in a notion of biologically-constituted origin. In this respect, biological, affective and social bonds merge to produce a precise placement of who is the father and/or who is the mother, as well as who are the important others and how they are linked to the child in a broader web of parenthood.

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