Health and sexual vulnerabilities of black transsexual and transvestite women

Abstract

Based on research conducted in the city of São Paulo, this article brings the debate of sexual and health vulnerabilities of black
transsexual and transvestite women combined with other factors of production of inequalities, such as race, gender,
class and sexuality, in a perspective of articulation of these markers. The data, it is observed that the first sexual relation
practiced by this public happened predominantly before the age of 17 (60% of transvestites and 30% of transsexuals),
and most of the transvestites were black. In addition, most of these people have suffered sexual violence (42.9% of transsexuals
in childhood and 50% of transvestites in adolescence), and most of them were also black. The survey shows that the
black transfeminine population claimed greater care of sexual prevention than whites, either in the use of condoms or vaccinations.
Such results, added to data of physical, verbal and symbolic violence in the spheres of education, work, social life and health, especially public ones, generate an intense debate about how the little state support and discrimination experienced in places of care, can keep black transsexual and transvestite women away from care, driving exposure to early sexual relationships and daily violence, promoting conditions that reverberate throughout their trajectories, bringing limits and potential at the same time.