Brazilian Transvestites for the World A Brief Ethnographic Report in the Bois De Bologne in Paris

Authors: João Dantas dos AN , de Sousa Oliveira ML and dos Santos FM

DOI: 10.23880/aeoaj-16000222

Volume 6, Issue 2

Abstract

Brazil is a hostile environment for Trans and transvestite women, lacking effective public policies and government data, while being characterized by physical and symbolic violence against this group. The research highlights that the numbers of reports do not truly reflect the extent of violence against transvestites in the country due to unreported cases, as well as murders not registered by government public security systems for transphobic reasons. In 2022, the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals - ANTRA recorded an increase in the number of murders of transvestites in Brazil, which reduced life expectancy to 35 years. Some transvestites seek a better life by migrating to Europe, here more specifically France. For the transvestites studied, in their imagination, it is a territory for the production of financial and symbolic capital, as well as a life with more possibilities for other relationships. In conclusion, the study emphasizes the marginalization and challenges faced by trans and transvestite women in Brazil and France, highlighting prostitution as a survival strategy due to the lack of effective policies, with the possibility of finding and building other landscapes that keep them linked to life.

Keywords: Transvestites; Environment; Prostitution; Relationships

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