Abstract

COACCI, Thiago. The gears of power: On some adjustment between law, sciences and transgender lives in Brazil. Ex aequo [online]. 2018, n.38, pp.17-31. ISSN 0874-5560.  https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2018.38.02.

The present work aims to demonstrate how the legal, medical and psy (psychiatry, psychology and psychiatry) discourses articulate in the legal debate on transgender rights. To this end, I analyze selected judgments from Brazilian courts, occurred in the 1970-2018 period. I claim that there is an internal plurality in each of those discourses and various combinations can be used to produce different practical effects in the lives of transgender people. I show that in the practice of law there is a strategic selection and combination of discourses, depending on the desired effect.

Keywords : Transgender; law; science.

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