Alteração de assentamento civil de transexuais quanto ao prenome e gênero na jurisprudência do STJ

Abstract

The present study has medical utility, legal and social, since it takes care of transsexualism is a psychological disorder, has repercussions on the civil registry and is a relatively unexplored subject and immersed in prejudice. This work has the scope to demonstrate how important is the reassignment surgery to ensure adequate physical sex to sex and psychosocial rectification civil settlement of transsexuals as the first name and gender with the object of analysis to understand the Superior Court of Justice that supports change in the civil settlement in which human dignity, in turn, to the Court, has ballast in self-determination. Is that self-determination is an attribute of individuals who are at the center of the moral community, at its periphery, there are individuals who do not enjoy this attribute, so that would be open for discussion if the self-determination which underpins human dignity, being the foundation of principle of the Dignity of the human Person highest point of inquiry of this monograph.