Abstract

BOY, Martín  and  RODRIGUEZ, María Florencia. The implementation of the Gender Identity Law in still cis heteronormed times. Dynamics of (in) attention to transgender people in the field of health in the Conurbano Bonarense. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.45, n.1, pp.461-478.  Epub Dec 28, 2023. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v45n1.85708.

This article addresses the ways and conditions in which the transgender people access to health after the approval of the Gender Identity Law (GIL). In the framework of a broader investigation that problematizes the transformations in the health services after the GIL, our research questions in this article were focused on understanding the possible changes oriented in the relationship between the health workers and the trans population taking into account the respect for self-perception ("dignified treatment", according to article 12 of the GIL) in particular and access to the right to health of this population in general. This article retrieves the testimonies of 25 health professionals and 10 transgenders consultants who work and / or attend health centers in the Northwest of Greater Buenos Aires (parties of José C. Paz, Malvinas Argentinas, Pilar and San Miguel). The GIL, approved in Argentina in 2012, is the first worldwide regulation that depathologizes trans identities to access registry changes and provides specific health treatments for free. However, through the interviews carried out, it is observed that heteronormativity crosses, still with force, health institutions and the professional practices of health workers, generating tensions between the new law that consecrates rights and the traditional biomedical patterns that reinforce violence and inequality against the transgender people in spatial contexts crossed by poverty, and the historical delay in providing urban infrastructure (access to public services as running water, public lighting, paving, and sewers, for example) and living conditions (level of poverty and indigence and structural unemployment and underemployment).

Keywords : Gender Identity Law; health professionals; heteronormativity; right to health; otherness; transvestite and trans identities.

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