Adoção do nome social pela população transgênera: uma análise do processo histórico da conquista do direito à isonomia de gêneros

Abstract

The present study intends to construct an analysis about the process history of the conquest of the right to gender equality. In the light of Judith Butler's concepts about gender performativity and the critical deconstruction of heteronormativity, we will discuss the respect for the importance of recognizing gender identity self-defined. Afterwards, the advances made in the consolidation of the sexual rights of the transgender population, as well as its eventual ambivalences. Finally, through the analysis of the evolution of the decisions of the higher courts, the jurisprudential path taken so far, reaching the remarkable decision of the Supreme Federal Court, in the sense of make it possible to change the first name and gender directly in extrajudicial services