As Vivências De Travestis E Transexuais E Os Territórios Nas Instituições De Ensino Superior Do Município De Ponta Grossa, Paraná

Abstract

O presente texto tem por objetivo compreender como as vivências de travestis e pessoas transexuais compõem territórios nas Instituições de Ensino Superior do município de Ponta Grossa, Paraná. Para tanto, foram realizadas 4 entrevistas com pessoas que se identificam enquanto travestis e transexuais (mulheres e homens) que vivenciam / vivenciaram as Instituições de Ensino Superior (públicas e privadas, ambas presenciais) da referida cidade. Os resultados evidenciam que o nome social se constitui como o pilar para a construção da identidade travesti e da identidade transexual, mas que, ao serem reconhecidas suas identidades dissidentes, estas pessoas são privadas de usufruir livremente seus territórios acadêmicos, delimitando-se assim aquilo que podemos chamar de insiders e outsiders. Desta forma, esta relação insiders/outsiders não é fixa, sendo que estas pessoas necessitam estabelecer estratégias e dispositivos para a expressão de seus corpos e de suas vivências nas Instituições de Ensino Superior.

The development and initial validation of an instrument measuring levels of violence suffered and practiced by students in higher education

“…With regards to the issue of homophobia on campus, an interesting correlation emerged in the overall model for the victim scale connecting H3 ‘Have you ever been subjected to homophobic jokes on campus during the past year’ and H7 ‘Have you ever had to omit or lie about being a gay man out of fear or fear of comments, glances and/or exclusion?’, with very strong effects. Jokes are a form of violence that emphasise values and relations of power in society (Santos et al, 2019), and in this connection, disclosing one’s sexual orientation to others may be something dangerous, raising the risk of suffering different kinds of violence, such as jokes. Our findings regarding the connection between making jokes about an individual’s sexuality, which is a way of displaying prejudice, and homophobia are in line with the wider literature (Branfman, 2019; Ford et al, 2017); however, and in addition to this, it is arguable that not disclosing one’s sexual orientation may be a reasonable option taken by individuals so to feel safer in certain contexts, such as the university campus.…”

“…With regards to lesbophobia, one interesting correlation made in the overall model was on L3, with a very strong effect, about the victim experience ‘Have you ever been subjected to lesbophobic jokes on campus during the past year’ and L13, very strong effect, about the perpetrator/bystander ‘Have you ever made jokes on campus about someone because they are lesbian during the past year’. Jokes are a form of violence that display values of our society and relations of power (Santos et al, 2019), byway of ridiculing others, it is possible to exclude them and to impose an understanding of being an outsider to lesbians (Godoi, 2013). The strong effect on L4 ‘Have you ever been excluded from any group of people because you are a lesbian on campus during the past year’, and in connection to L14 ‘Have you ever excluded someone from your group of friends on campus because that person was a lesbian individual during the past year?’, correlates to our preceding findings.…”