Abstract
In the face of an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis, the denial of the far-right government has led to a disastrous management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. We defend the argument that a deliberate project to exterminate the most vulnerable populations is underway. This study aims to analyze the impacts of social distancing measures in the trans community, seeking to offer subsidies to articulate an understanding that favors an ethical-political management of the pandemic. In the article we developed this argument around the consequences of necropolitics on precarious lives. We incorporate the voices of people linked to trans activism who share their experiences supporting the community. We situate the ongoing social processes that produce norms that regulate and make the peripheral trans bodies vulnerable. Solidarity and measures to mitigate the suffering of the excluded may represent an inflexion in the ongoing process of institutionalizing inequality.
Keywords:
Transsexuality; COVID-19; Coronavirus Infections; Pandemics; Social isolation; Necropolitics