MODES OF TRANSSEXULITY: INTERLACEMENT OF GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Abstract

This work has as aim analyzing the process of construction of identities of gender and sexual orientation of two professors who self-defined themselves as transsexual.  Thereunto, a qualitative research was performed by means of a solid interview with a semi-structured guide. In their own synthesis, the interviewed have explained, in meaning of transsexuality, similarities and differences between themselves, in a process of construction from: references in the media (television or cinema); from experiences with Medicine and Psychology; and from the participation in social movements. Whether the process of reflection on the identity seems to be changeable, continuous and unfinished, the heteronormative role has been a constant in school environments, with all the traps in it; this context becomes the continuity of studies a daily struggle faced by transsexual subjects.