SOCIAL WORK AND TRANS POPULATION: A DEBATE ON SOCIAL ISSUES AND ITS EXPRESSIONS ON THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE

UM DEBATE SOBRE QUESTÃO SOCIAL E SUAS EXPRESSÕES NA CENA CONTEMPORÂNEA

Abstract

With this paper I will seek to shed lights on the new confrontations that the Social Work experiences in contemporary times, such as the field of professional action with transgender people. It is a field that puts new demands on the profession, such as acting in the face of transphobia and sexism and promoting the citizenship of the trans public; intervene in the new configurations and multiple expressions of the social issues, not only, but fundamentally, to the discriminations of gender; consider gender as the analytical category of social life; and, above all, to pursue the perspective that practice and professional qualification need to keep pace with the reality in movement. In addition, it demands a critical-dialectic look in articulation to the socioanthropological readings, given the sociological importance that the trans experience expresses. Thus, I develop in this article, in an introductory way, a dialogue about the diverse identities and expressions of gender, addressing the category difference and identity processes, then I present a brief picture of the debate of gender diversity in Social Work, to, then, articulate and make mediations between social issues in the contemporary scene and the condition of oppression and exploitation that trans people subscribe to.