Abstract
This text proposes to compose a reflection about some frontiers that cross the psychology when put in contact with the demands of the trans segments and with the operationalization of health policies for this segment. A rapid survey of health policies enables us to understand how their constructions point to different understandings both of the trans experience itself and of the power dynamics that establish the cisgender norm as the centrality and rule from which the experiences are measured. The ambiguity posed is that to the extent that guaranteeing universalized access to services, as well as amplifying their offer is a necessity to be ruled with urgencies, the daily practices of professionals of these spaces will produce the tone of the whole policy, marking this as emancipatory and welcoming or just another reinforcement of the norms of naturalized and compulsory cisgenerity. Psychology, here we believe, occupies a strategic place given its production as a field that affirms the self-determination of gender and capillarizes itself in the most diverse niches of the health system, including basic attention. Finally, attention to the norms that cross the proposition and effectiveness of health policies for the trans people is a fundamental exercise so that we can establish depathologizing practices and finally abdicate the constant production of “specialists” imbued by a set of relations of power, of telling others about their supposed truths, producing exclusions from experiences that do not fit in the restricted biomedical manuals.
Health Policies; Psychology; Cisgenerity; Trans People