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Problems at school
Lack of welcoming
Discomfort
Pain
Violence
Masculine woman
Yield decrease
Withdrawal from studies
Job difficulty
Daily prejudices
Disrespecting the name
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[...] since childhood, I had problems with the school, which never welcomed me. School has always been a place of great discomfort and pain, as it was a place of much violence. Several times, I failed to take advantage of recess time and stay inside the classroom to avoid violence. Since that time, I was already seen as a boy, but I didn’t have that understanding yet, and, because of that, I was seen as a masculine woman, and that was also the case in adolescence. Because of these problems, I didn’t have good income and I gave up studying. I was ashamed, afraid and all this prevented me from learning, from concentrating and from facing the challenges that school presented. The reflection of all this I try to recover nowadays, because without schooling everything became more difficult, including finding a job. I even get some opportunities, but they all require training. Getting to university is another challenge that seems unattainable, because I know that I will have to face more difficulties, including the breaking of daily prejudices that I suffer, such as, for example, respect for my social name. I had to fight to have my name on the attendance lists, in the registration system, and even so I suffered transphobia from professors. (DSC) |
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Financial difficulty
Difficulty in formal employability
Hiding place
Delegitimization of trans passing
Discomfort
Anguish
Loss of food quality and access to health services – follow-up, hormone therapy, surgeries, survival
Vulnerabilities
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[...] all of this affects the quality of my diet, access to going to the health service to carry out my follow-up, hormone therapy, as the health system does not offer hormones for free, nor achieving breast adjustment surgery and even survive. Because of this, I have noticed many women and also trans men vulnerable to prostitution and trafficking. (DCS) |
