Abstract
At the present time, studies focusing on the subject of transsexuality have gradually gained prominence in the agenda of researchers from different areas, such as psychology, medicine, law and social sciences. However, the literature dedicated to investigating affective experience and marital relationships in transsexual people is still sparse. This gap is an expression of the discriminatory condition and the abjection to which transsexual subjectivities are subjected. Considering this insufficiency, this study sought to unveil the meanings attributed to conjugality by a cisgender-transsexual couple. The method used was the Single Case Study, based on an episodic narrative interview. The results obtained were analyzed by adopting the Queer perspective as a theoretical framework. The analysis points out that the conjugal relationship between transsexual and cisgender people is marked by the encounter of two distinct life histories regarding social acceptance and passability, but at some point intersecting each other through the formation of an affective bond. Relating outside the culturally attributed norms to gender and sexuality involves a number of risks and barriers, since the individual’s life and body become targets of exclusion, violation of rights, and attempts at elimination through the effects of necropolitics. At the same time, to love beyond the norms can also imply in an enlarged libertarian process, since some of the strings of the heteronormative culture loosen up. When there is family and friends support, the relationship tends to provide resources that favor the confrontation of adverse and potentially threatening situations that could result in the dissolution of the union.
Transsexuality; Conjugality; Queer theory