Afirmações dos estudantes sobre pessoa transexual: um estudo comparativo na Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brasil) e na Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the concept of transexual people, in the course of a comparative study at the University of Madeira, UMa (Portugal) and at the Federal University of Sergipe, UFS (Brazil) on "University students' voices on sexual and gender diversity, its relationship with coeducation and pedagogical innovation." In methodological terms a qualitative approach was adopted, with the application of a questionnaire with open and closed questions and the viewing of a short video framing the theme. Content analysis was performed on the data obtained. The compared results show that most of the former students of UMa as those of UFS know and value the concept of transexual people, centered on the subjective construction/reconstruction of identity. There is in most of the former students of UFS a strong awareness of the constraints about the experience of transexuality motivated by the influence of stereotyped social standards. This is justified by the experience of social contexts predominantly patronizing, with taboos on this theme. Comparing the results, there is a greater involvement of the former students of the Universidade Federal de Sergipe in the discussion of the concept of transexual people. The answers of the former students at the University of Madeira confirm a lower adherence to this initiative.