(Des)caminhos em busca de cuidado: uma análise da rede de assistência à saúde para pessoas transexuais e travestis em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This research proposed to analyze important aspects of the operation of the health care network for transgender and travesti people in the city of Juiz de Fora/Minas Gerais (MG). Among them, the structure and flow of the network, as well as the access and availability of the care provided by public health policies for the transsexual and travesti population that demand the actions, in the levels of basic attention and specialized attention of medium complexity, of the Transsexualizing Process in the Public Health System (SUS. In Portuguese). The Transsexualizing Process is a set of actions related to sexual character transformations of people seeking for these interventions. The city of Juiz de Fora have been a reference place in the health assistance of the area of Zona da Mata, in the most diverse lines of care, which justified the social and scientific relevance of the choice of this city. This study presented three questions for the main research work proposed: How does work the Health Care Network (RAS, in Portuguese), as regards the line of care for transgender and travesti people, in the city of Juiz de Fora? How does the public health network of this region, in the interior of Brazil, implement and execute the guidelines of assistance established by the Ministry of Health for users with demand for the realization of the Transsexualizing Process? In addition, how do these guidelines are processed, or do they are not processed, in this context of attention? The Arqueogenealogy perspective, based on the theoreticalphilosophical proposal of Michel Foucault, is our methodological strategy. The formal and dynamic aspects that make up the health care line in the RAS of the researched area, for the transsexual and travesti population, are unknown, so this methodology proved to be efficient to verify knowledge/power relationships that produce public policies in health, establishing the Transsexualizing Process inside the SUS. Above all, about to the conditions of operation and implementation of this process in the context of RAS in the city studied. As the main results, it can be noted that the therapeutic itineraries of transsexuals and travestis from Juiz de For a and region, in search of health care, appearing in different ways, but converge in a few fragile points of attention that, according established criteria, were considered to be the network properly researched. This study found that the way of operation of this network is result of their informal construction that having been constituted without the participation of public management from the city. Some important theoretical constructs such as programmatic vulnerability, social marks of difference, integrality and autonomy, sustained the analytical discussion of this thesis. Thus, the complex web formed from the (dis)paths of transgender and travesti people by the network in the city, showed how stressful, time consuming and uncertain can be the trajectories in search of health care for those who put themselves to walk in search of ways that will should only be therapeutic.