News about the recent classification of trans identities: an analysis of the sources cited in reports published in Brazil

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v13i2.1699

Keywords:

Gender, Transgenders, Health communication, Journalism, ICD-11, Medicalization.

Abstract

The release of the eleventh edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) in June 2018 received international and national press coverage. In this version, transgender identities are no longer described as a mental health condition. Instead, they are classified as gender incongruence in the chapter on sexual health. Considering that discursive practices conform and are conformed by social practices and that the process of despatologization is marked by the concepts of medicalization and biomedicalization, this work identifies and analyzes the sources quoted in the journalistic coverage produced in Brazil. This study, focusing on social actors quoted as sources, aims to understand the meanings constructed by the main Brazilian newspaper about this subject. It concludes that institutional sources in the health field compete with others in the legal field, with members of social movements and trans people, who speak for themselves.

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Author Biographies

  • Tatiana Clébicar Leite, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Mestrado em Ciências pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.
  • Katia Lerner, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Doutorado em Sociologia e Antropologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2019-06-28

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2019): Dossiê 40 anos do movimento LGBT no Brasil: comunicação, saúde e direitos humanos

Section

Dossiê: 40 anos do movimento LGBT no Brasil: comunicação, saúde e direitos humanos

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News about the recent classification of trans identities: an analysis of the sources cited in reports published in Brazil. (2019). RECIIS, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v13i2.1699