Vidas transgénero: Análisis sobre la construcción de identidad de personas transgénero y su relación con la violencia dentro del conflicto armado

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the construction of identity of transgender victims of violence in the context of the armed conflict, the study is framed in the comprehensive interpretive paradigm and from a qualitative methodological approach with the intention of revealing and deepening in the relationship between identity construction and violence based on the experiences of transgender people. Thus, the forms in which the action repertoires of an established dominant sex-gender system are manifested, the violence exerted by armed actors and other primary-secondary referents, as well as subjective processes at the level of collective recognition are addressed. , transit processes, and self-recognition, which is why the area of ​​identity and the body is prioritized. In the same way, this study aims to show the implications and impacts of these events at the individual and collective level. This research used as a technique the review and treatment of secondary sources through stories of transgender people from different contexts and with differentiated experiences that account for the importance of their own experiences within the armed conflict, prioritizing from a sociological perspective the category of gender not as an isolated element, but as a component of the armed conflict and that is also structural to other configurations, transformations and social changes.