"i didn't want my child to be teached by a travestite”: : a study about the professional experiences of a transvestite teacher

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Danilo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Souza, Marcos Lopes de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Labor
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/labor/article/view/80701
• topic: Teaching work.; Transvestite teacher.; Elementary school.; Trabajo docente.; Profesora travesti.; Enseñanza básica.; Trabalho docente.; Professora travesti.; Ensino fundamental.; travestilidade; docência; educação

The present work is an excerpt of a research developed during the master's degree in which we aimed to analyze the experiences of a transvestite teacher in the exercise of teaching. The teacher Louranya had experience in the educational space in public schools in a city in the interior of Bahia. This study was based on the post-critical, post-structuralist studies and also on transfeminist references. With this research we sought to question: how cisnormativity operates in school by continuously violating the transvestite teacher? What resistance strategies did Louranya use to continue as a teacher at school? The empirical material was produced through narrative interviews with the teacher Louranya, with the former school principal and with the mother of one of the students. When starting her teaching career, Louranya experienced transphobia from the school community that did not want her as a teacher of a class in the early years of elementary school. Even though she had the support of the principal, she was persecuted and continually charged, by the vice-principal and some family members, to build herself as the best professional and give her best to continue in the job, including because she was under temporary contract. Louranya got support from several of the students' mothers; however, some of them chose to transfer their children to another school.