ABSTRACT
The rights of transgender people to health care has been achieved through intense social mobilization, resulting in specific policies for that population. But despite those policies, in general, there is a lack of assistance to this group regarding their health care, leading them to design different therapeutic itineraries in the search for health care assistance. In this article, we present the therapeutic itineraries built by the trans population in Niterói through their Social Networks. For that, a qualitative exploratory research was carried out at Ambulatório de Atenção à Saúde João W. Nery, in Niterói. Twenty transgender people who are cared for at the clinic and who live in the city participated. They answered a semi-structured interview script. Data treatment was carried out using the thematic-categorical content analysis. The research shows that Social Networks have expanded the capacity of health production, mobilizing family relationships, friendship, religiosity, student movement, and study groups at the university, in addition to the LGBTQIA+ social movement on the empowerment and resignification of life projects and the very expression of transgender identity. We suggest that health services need to know and articulate social networks to produce health care guided by the paradigms of integrality and human rights.
KEYWORDS
Transsexuality; Transgender health; Therapeutic itinerary; Social networks.