- Location
- DLSPH 507 (and Zoom)
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event
- Format
- Hybrid
- Dates
- May 28, 2026 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Links
Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub …
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub lecture series presents: Gender Affirming Care in Brazil with Julia Clara de Pontes (University of São Paulo).
Care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children and adolescents sits at the centre of growing political and epistemological disputes, in contexts marked by the erosion of rights and systematic attacks on research-based knowledge. This workshop engages with this topic, presenting findings from a qualitative exploratory study conducted at a specialised gender health centre in southeastern Brazil (2023–2024), based on 28 in-depth interviews — with family members of TGD youth (aged 5–17) and healthcare providers — and participant observation. In the first part, we examine the social elements that facilitate or hinder affirmative family trajectories, with emphasis on the social mechanisms and community dynamics that push families towards corrective practices, and the elements that can favour shifts towards affirmative parenting. In the second part, we discuss how stigma impacts care decisions within a tension between affirmation/support of TGD identity and invisibility/anonymity as a strategy in the face of pervasive violence. Implications point to the centrality of peer support building and alliances between health services and family organisations in moving from individualized to community “care”.
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub is a CIHR funded health research training platform.