“Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?”: nurses’ representations on ‘transvestite’ people

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira,Ester Mascarenhas
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Oliveira,Jeane Freitas de, Suto,Cleuma Sueli Santos, Porcino,Carle, Brandão,Sara Peixoto de Almeida, Oliveira,Daiane Santos, Silva,Dejeane de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672020001800176
• topic: Transvestism; Nurses; Prejudice; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Free Association

ABSTRACT Objectives: to learn and analyze the structure of nurses’ social representations about transvestite people. Methods: a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, with 110 nurses enrolled in Graduate Nursing courses, who answered the Free-Association Test, with the stimulus ‘transvestite’. Data were processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant I’ Analysedes Évocations. Results: in the central nucleus, the term “prejudice” was the most evoked, followed by “homosexual”, “identity” and “female-make-up”. Social representation is anchored in the social organization in which transvestite people are still seen and/or associated with homosexuals who make up and assume an identity, without being seen and/or understood as they really are. Final Considerations: although prejudice is noteworthy as a central element, terms present in the peripheral system reveal that the group recognizes transvestites as a person with rights, which can translate into health care practices.