Between resistance and submission to the norms: the discourse of and about the transgender

Abstract

This work proposes to reflect on the effects of meanings, understood as discourses, that constitute the subjects in their dilemmas of identity affirmations. These dilemmas are related to gender issues when the violence of others denies their condition of existence. The objective is to reflect on the functioning of the senses in the discourses that constitute the subjects that are defined on the basis of a paradigm of subversion and submission, from the imaginaries of the cisgenders on the transgenders that affect the constitution of the transgender as Subjects. From this objective, a proposal is developed to think the theory as a discourse and how its conceptual constructions relate to the performative practices of the Subjects in a process of resistance and submission to the social norms of predominant genres. With the theoretical contribution of the Discourse Analysis initially developed by Michel Pêcheux in France and by Eni Orlandi in Brazil, the article analyzes the discourse of selected discussions in the social media facebook. The analysis allows the understanding of discursive positioning of a transsexual profile in this scheme of resistance to a norm at the same time that it is submitted to this norm in the very operation of the effects of senses that constitute the subjects.

Keywords

• teoria de gênero
• análise do discurso
• imaginários
• sujeitos.