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THESIS PROPOSAL
Marina Abagge Greca

11.VIII.1 Thesis / Final Project Preparation

Vienna Master of Applied Human Rights,
University of Applied Arts Vienna

Vienna
2024
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Table of Contents
1. PRELIMINARY TITLE ................................................................................................. 2
2. PROBLEM AND RESEARCH QUESTION ................................................................. 2
2.1 Reasons for choosing this topic/question ......................................................................... 5
3. METHODOLOGY ......................................................................................................... 6
3.1 Theoretical lens ................................................................................................................ 6
3.2 Applied Methods .............................................................................................................. 7
4. LITERATURE LIST ...................................................................................................... 7
5. PRACTICAL RESOURCES .......................................................................................... 9
6. TIMELINE.................................................................................................................... 10
7. RELEVANCE ............................................................................................................... 10
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1. PRELIMINARY TITLE
Transviadecendo the understanding of the enforcement of normative masculinity on
transmasculinities in Brazil and its non-normative alternatives

2. PROBLEM AND RESEARCH QUESTION

Queer theory emerges in the United States of America as a field that apprehends gender
and sexuality as historical and social constructs.1 This area of study challenges binary
classifications of gender and sexuality.2 The term queer had a negative connotation in the U.S.
American context, being used as an offense.3 Despite that, it was adopted and transformed into
a positive term of identification and naming of the theory as a way of objecting to its bad
significance and destabilizing the listener.4
In Brazil, Queer theory started to develop in academia, however, it remained mostly
restricted to specific scientific environments.5 The term queer ended up not being embraced by
social movements or as an identification category by individuals. Queer, as a foreign word to
Portuguese, does not have the same effect as it has on its context of origin.6 As an alternative,
the nomenclature transviado7 started to be implemented.8 It is a combination of the words trans
and viado9, and encompasses sexual and gender dissidencies.10 It addresses deviations from the
norm using a combination of words that has the possibility of causing discomfort in the
audience.11
Transviado has local comprehensibility, it offers the possibility of reaching beyond
academic niches and fitting better into the Brazilian context.12 Its relevance also lies in the
potential of questioning the colonial thinking within the usage of queer in Brazil.13 Transviado
can facilitate the development a field of studies that encompass the social, political, and
historical aspects of the Brazilian context.14 Analyzing Brazilian transmasculinities through a
transviado perspective can be associated with a decolonial approach. Decolonial thinking
reiterates the importance of looking at transness from a local and contextualized perspective,

1
A. S. Gomes Filho, ‘Estudos Transviados: algumas reflexões’, Revista Interfaces: saúde, humanas e tecnologia,
vol. 3, no. 11, 2015, p. 22.; B. Bento, Transviad@s: Gênero, Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos, Salvador, Editora
da Universidade Federal da Bahia (EDUFBA), 2017, p.124.
2
Bento, p.133.
3
Ibid., p.131.
4
Gomes Filho, p.22.; Bento, p.131.
5
Bento, p.131.
6
Ibid., p.131.
7
Transviadecendo, a verb derived from transviado, can be an equivalent of the verb queering, referring to a
process of challenging normative perspectives on gender and sexuality.
8
Gomes Filho, p.22
9
Viado can be translarted to faggot.
10
G. Lamounier, Gêneros encarcerados: Uma análise trans viada da política de alas LGBT no Sistema Prisional
de Minas Gerais, Master Thesis, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2018, p.11, Available from
https://repositorio.ufmg.br/handle/1843/BUBD-AYVHBJ (accessed 19 February 2024).
11
Lamounier, p.11.
12
Bento, p.131.
13
Ibid., p.131.
14
Ibid., p.124.
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avoiding importing a universal Global North concept of trans.15 There is a growing movement
employing decoloniality to queer and transviado studies in Brazil.16
In this framework, transmasculinities17 are understood as multiple and plural.18 And a
universal definition of transmasculinity upon different individual trans experiences is not
imposed.19 However, it is still necessary to characterize transmasculinities. A possible
description is that transgender20 identities encompass an incongruency between one’s self-
determined gender identity and the gender that was socially assigned to them from their
biological sex of birth.21 It can be seen as a transgression from gender norms and an objection
to binary gender structures.22 Transmasculinities fall under the transgender umbrella, referring
to the identity of individuals who were assigned female at birth but oppose this designation in
a variety of ways, comprising different identifications with masculinity.23 It is important to
address transmasculinities from an intersectional perspective, considering diverse social
markers24 that compose various experiences within transmasculinity.25 Considering this,
adopting a regional approach to transmasculinities is necessary, acknowledging the
specificities and plurality of transmasculinities in Brazil.
Transmasculinities are impacted by cisheteronormativity.26 Cisheteronormativity refers
to systematic social norms that expect an alignment between the identified sex of birth, gender,
and sexual orientation of a person.27 For instance, a child who is born with female genitalia is
expected to identify as a woman and to sexually and romantically relate to men. In this logic,
there is a set of social privileges associated with an approximation of one’s expression and
identity to white cisgenerity28 and heterosexuality.29 Within cisheteronormativity a standard of
masculinity exists where the ideal is to be heterosexual, cisgender, endosex30, white, able-

15
A. Aizura, et al, ‘Introduction: Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,
vol. 1, no. 3, 2014, p.314.
16
Bento, p.130.
17
In this study, the term transmasculinities is employed in plural due to the multiple and diverse character of
possible transmasculine existences. The term includes masculinities in the non-binary spectrum and individuals
who identify as transmasculine but not as trans man.
18
G. Almeida, ‘'Homens trans': novos matizes na aquarela das masculinidades?’, Revista Estudos Feministas, vol.
20, no.2, 2012, p.515.
19
Almeida, p.515.
20
Transgender is an umbrella term that encompasses various gender identitites different from the cisgender ones
(according to Lanz)
21
L. Lanz, O corpo da roupa - A pessoa transgênera entre a transgressão e a conformidade com as normas de
gênero, Master Thesis, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2014, p.74, available from
https://acervodigital.ufpr.br/handle/1884/36800 (accessed 19 february 2024).
22
Lanz, p.74.
23
Almeida, p.515.
24
Some examples of social markers are: class, race, geographical location, sexual orientation, and age.
25
B. L. Pfeil, and C. L. Pfeil, ‘Da sombra da cisgeneridade a subjetivações transmasculinas’, in Pfeil, B. L.,
Victoriano, N., Pustilnick, N (eds.), Corpos Transitórios: Narrativas Transmasculinas, Salvador, Diálogos, 2021,
p.167
26
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.172.
27
Bento, p.325.
28
Cisgender is an individual whose assigned gender at birth matches their gender identity.
29
B. LeMaster et al, ‘Unlearning cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference: Performing queer
worldmaking through collaged relational autoethnography’, Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2019,
p.27.
30
Endosex is an adjective used to describe individuals with sex characteristics that can fit the binary notions of
male or female. Intersex individuals, on the other hand, possess sex characteristics that are not read in the binary
male/female categories.
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bodied and to exercise oppression upon non-normative bodies.31

In a cisheteronormative context, transmasculinities do not conform with what is socially
expected from normative masculinity.32 Still, there is a demand that transmasculine individuals
attempt to resemble cisgender men and reproduce a binary and violent form of masculinity.33
This challenges the existence of dissident masculinities, including those in the non-binary34
spectrum35. Scholars in Latin America state that there is a continuous invalidation of
masculinities that are not cisgender in the region, this is linked to the fact they are often not
read or acknowledged as masculinities.36There is a lack of references to what could be
masculinity different from the cisheteronormative one.37 Transmasculine individuals struggle
to fit into a social structure that does not have a social imaginary to validate their identities.38
Transsness is historically read from a medical perspective, transsexuality started to be
institutionalized when it became a medical diagnostical category.39 The symptom of gender
dysphoria was created to describe significant suffering related to the incongruency between
one’s experienced gender and the one assigned to them.40 It involves the desire to express, be
socially recognized, and/or have characteristics of the self-identified gender, also possibly
encompassing a rejection towards one’s own primary and/or secondary sexual characteristics.41
To access legal medical transition in Brazil in the public health system individuals need to
possess a medical report confirming that they are transgender, which is linked to gender
dysphoria.42 What confirms that someone is a trans man often comes from a medical cisgender
perspective, with an expectation that transmasculinities express normative masculinity,
experience a strong discomfort with their bodies and long-term suffering related to their
assigned gender at birth.43 So, to undergo treatments such as hormone therapy and surgeries,
in the public health system44, there is a necessity to comply with certain cisheretonormative
standards.45 Additionally, in Brazil until 2018 a judicial process was required to enable gender
and name changes in official registries.46 For this, there was a need to prove the individual’s

31
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.161.
32
S. Ferreira, ‘A emergência do debate da transmasculinidade negra’, Revista de Estudos Transviades, vol.1,
no.1., 2020, p.164.
33
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.165
34
Non-binary is an umbrella term that encompasses diverse gender identities outside the man/woman gender
binary.
35
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.170
36
Ferreira, p.164; F. F Romero and A. Mendieta, ‘Toward a Trans* Masculine Genealogy in South America’,
Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol.9, no.3, 2022, p.524
37
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.158.
38
Ibid., p.158.
39
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), Mapeamento de Saúde das Transmasculinidades Vivendo
no Brasil, 2023, p.12.
40
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), p.13.; American Psychiatric Association (APA),
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders - 5, 2013, Arlington, p.453
41
American Psychiatric Association (APA), p.453.
42
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), p.14.; P. C. Rocon, et al, ‘Desafios enfrentados por
pessoas trans para acessar o processo transexualizador do Sistema Único de Saúde’, Interface-Comunicação,
Saúde, Educação, vol. 23, 2019, p.7.
43
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), p.15.
44
Private doctors are not obliged to request such confirmation, however, it is often that they do.
45
Pfeil and Pfeil, p.165; Rocon, p.9.
46
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), p.16.
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gender identity and one of the key elements analyzed by judges were medical reports.47 This
points out that the access to important rights of transmasculine people is permeated by a
medical discourse and the pathologization of their identities, which is tied to
cisheteronormativity.
Opposing a cisheteronormative determination of masculinity, a discourse from sectors
of the Brazilian transmasculine community48 reiterates the importance of creating
transmasculine parameters to transmasculine existence, objecting to the employment of a
cismasculine reference.49 According to them, transmasculinities can be non-normative, and not
only a different form of cis masculinity.50 There is a claim of the relevance of giving new
meanings to the body and not reading it from a ‘gender dysphoria’ perspective, where the
pursuit of body modifications is related to suffering and rejection.51
Transmasculinities exist in a cisheteronomative social structure. This involves the
expectation that transmasculine people express their gender identity in conformity with
normative masculinity. Different negative effects on the transmasculine population are related
to this, including barriers to access to human rights, such as the right to health and to not be
discriminated against.52 Aligning with a decolonial perspective, it is important to understand
transmasculinities locally. Also, transmasculine individuals are diverse and transpassed by
different vulnerabilities, thus, an intersectional viewpoint is necessary for the theme. Therefore,
Transviado, which holds the possibility of establishing a Brazilian contextualized dialogue
with queer theory, has the potential for approaching transmasculinities in Brazil. Additionally,
it is relevant to consider the discourse of the transmasculine community on the possibilities of
exercising masculinity in a non-normative manner. Thus, the research question of this study is:

How can the enforcement of normative masculinity on transmasculinities in Brazil and its non-
normative alternatives be characterized from a transviado perspective?

2.1 Reasons for choosing this topic/question

The choice of topic relates to the specific context and community that are part of the
aim of the research. Since I wish to live and work in Brazil, possibly with the trans population,
I am interested in investigating about this theme and location. I wish to take part in the
development of knowledge on the topic in Brazil, an area with a demand for the elaboration of
scientific research. Also, I am familiar with parts of the discourse and claims of the
transmasculinities in Brazil. From that, I understood that there was a need to investigate more
the expectations of masculinity on transmasculine individuals and to possibly contribute to a
non-normative construct of what transmasculinities are. Also, as a human rights student and

47
Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), p.16.
48
It is important to acknowledge that this discourse cannot be generalized and might not represent the totality of
transmasculine individuals in Brazil. It is reinforced by the Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (Brazilian
Institute of Transmasculinities - IBRAT) and other social and educational movements, it has also been developed
in academia by transmasculine scholars.
49
Pfeil and Pfeil.
50
Ibid., p.174.
51
Ibid., p.174.
52
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (adopted 16 December 1966, entered into force
3 January 1976), 993 UNTS
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future practitioner, I am able to collaborate with the dialogue of those topics with the human
rights field. I am curious about using the chosen theoretical lens, I understand that they fit well
in seeking a more trans-centered perspective on transmasculinities, and in being critical of
gender norms and the pathologization of transness. They also match with a critical approach
concerning the Brazilian context. Being in a Master’s in Vienna places me in an advantaged
location to look both to an international setting of queer theory and transgender studies and to
Brazilian efforts of transviadecer these theories, establishing a bridge between these scenarios.

3. METHODOLOGY

3.1 Theoretical lens

a) Transviado perspectives to Queer Theory
Queer theory analyses heteronormative power structures and how they affect dissident
gender and sexuality existences.53 Bento states three understandings of queer theory: objection
to the supposition that gender identities are binary; recognition of identity as something that is
not an essence of the individual but constructed socially; and acknowledgment of the body as
a place of dispute.54 To apply perspectives that come from queer theory and to develop gender
studies in Brazil there is a relevance in creating a language that is adequate to the location and
not only import knowledge constructed in the Global North. This involves taking into
consideration what are the Brazilian historical processes, class struggles, and racial dynamics.55
Thus, employing a transviado approach to concepts that come from queer theory is beneficial.
This involves utilizing the work of scholars such as Berenice Bento and Guacira Lopes Louro56.
A transviado perspective also aims to create proximity to social movements discourse,
considering that queer theory in Brazil is more restricted to academic niches.57

b) Trans studies
Trans studies emerged from an objection to medical, juridical, and psychotherapeutic
approaches to transness, which were related to its pathologization.58 It is an interdisciplinary
area that aims to look at transgender particularities without exoticization and objectification.59
The field delves into the normative frameworks of power that are connected to the
understanding of transgender expressions as abnormal.60 In this framework, ‘transgender’ is
the main category of analysis.61 The studies encompass aspects such as social changes, culture,
politics, history, communications, embodiment, identity, sexuality and others.62 Trans studies
are relevant to this research because it seeks to explore themes and approaches not yet fully

53
Gomes Filho, p.22.
54
Bento, p.133.
55
Ibid., p.124.
56
G. L. Louro, Um corpo estranho: ensaios sobre sexualidade e teoria queer, Belo Horizonte, Autêntica, 2018.
57
Bento, p.124.
58
S. Stryker and P. Currah, ‘Introduction’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, p.4
59
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, About the Journal (website), 2023, https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq
(accessed 21 February 2024).
60
Stryker and Currah, p.4.
61
Ibid., p.5.
62
Stryker and Currah, p.5.; TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2023.
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covered by queer or feminist theories.63 It contradicts normative knowledge about trans topics64
and has been developed also with decolonial thinking.65 Finally, it questions the usage of trans
people only as ‘voices’ or objects of research.66

c) Decolonial thinking
Analyzing Brazilian transmasculinities through a transviado perspective can be associated with
a decolonial approach. Decolonial thinking applied to trans studies reiterates the importance of
looking at transness from a local and contextualized perspective, avoiding applying a universal
Global North concept of trans.67 There is a growing movement employing decoloniality to
queer or transviado studies in Brazil.68 It aligns with a critical usage of Queer theory in the
Brazilian context and the application of the transviado perspective to the study of
transmasculinities.69 Decolonial thinking can support the understanding of how coloniality
relates to gender and normative masculinity.70Additionally, it is relevant in underlining the
colonial aspects of trans as a category.71

3.2 Applied Methods

a) Review of literature
A semi-systematic review of literature will be conducted considering its possibility of
addressing the existing diversity of theoretical approaches to the topic, its different locations
of knowledge production, and variety of researchers.72 Through the review, a qualitative
analysis of the literature will be enabled.73 A semi-systematic review method will be tailored
considering the specificities of the research. The following elements will be defined according
to the research’s objectives: inclusion and exclusion criteria for articles; search terms for
articles; and digital libraries to be used. Articles related to the research theme from the journal
Revista de Estudos Transviades will be included in the review, considering that its academic
knowledge is developed by transmasculine scholars in Brazil. Relevant articles from the journal
Transgender Studies Quarterly:TSQ will also be incorporated. Additionally, relevant literature
from the chosen theoretical lens will be employed to develop the analysis.

4. LITERATURE LIST
Aizura, A. et al, ‘Introduction: Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary’, TSQ: Transgender
Studies Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, 2014, pp. 308–319.
63
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2023.
64
Stryker and Currah, p.4.
65
T. Boellstorff, et al, ‘Decolonizing transgender: A roundtable discussion.’ Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol.
1, no. 3, 2014, pp. 419-439; Aizura, et al.
66
Boellstorff, p.424.
67
Aizura, et al., p.314.
68
Bento, p.130.
69
Ibid., p.130.
70
Aizura, et al., p.310.
71
A. Peeples, ‘Materialist Girl: Toward an Anticolonial Account of Historical Trans Political Economy’, TSQ:
Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, 2023, p.42.
72
H. Snyder, ‘Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines’, Journal of business
research, vol. 104, 2019, p.335.
73
H. Snyder, p.335.
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Almeida, G., ‘'Homens trans': novos matizes na aquarela das masculinidades?’, Revista
Estudos Feministas, vol. 20, no.2, 2012, pp. 513-523.

American Psychiatric Association (APA), Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental

disorders - 5, 2013, Arlington.

Bento, B. ‘O que pode uma teoria? Estudos transviados e a despatologização das identidades
trans’, Florestan, no. 2, 2014, pp. 46-66.

Bento, B., Transviad@s: Gênero, Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos, Salvador, Editora da

Universidade Federal da Bahia (EDUFBA), 2017.

Bernardino-Costa, J. ‘A prece de Frantz Fanon: Oh, meu corpo, faça sempre de mim um
homem que questiona!’, Civitas, vol. 16, no. 3, 2016, pp. 504-521.

Boellstorff, T. et al, ‘Decolonizing transgender: A roundtable discussion’ TSQ: Transgender

Studies Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, 2014, pp. 419-439.

Ferreira, S., ‘A emergência do debate da transmasculinidade negra’, Revista de Estudos

Transviades, vol.1, no.1., 2020, pp. 162-171.

Gomes Filho, A. S., ‘Estudos Transviados: algumas reflexões’, Revista Interfaces: saúde,
humanas e tecnologia, vol. 3, no. 11, 2015, pp. 21-25

Instituto Brasileiro de Transmasculinidades (IBRAT), Mapeamento de Saúde das

Transmasculinidades Vivendo no Brasil, 2023.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Adopted 16 December 1966,
entered into force 3 January 1976), 993 UNTS

Lamounier, G., Gêneros encarcerados: Uma análise trans viada da política de alas LGBT no
Sistema Prisional de Minas Gerais, Master Thesis, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,
2018, Available from https://repositorio.ufmg.br/handle/1843/BUBD-AYVHBJ (accessed 19
February 2024).

Lanz, L., O corpo da roupa - A pessoa transgênera entre a transgressão e a conformidade com
as normas de gênero, Master Thesis, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2014, available from
https://acervodigital.ufpr.br/handle/1884/36800 (accessed 19 february 2024).

LeMaster, B. et al, ‘Unlearning cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference:

Performing queer worldmaking through collaged relational autoethnography’, Text and
Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2019, pp. 341-370.

Louro, G. L., Um corpo estranho: ensaios sobre sexualidade e teoria queer, Belo Horizonte,
Autêntica, 2018.

Nay, Y. E. and Steinbock, E. ‘Critical trans studies in and beyond Europe: Histories, methods,
and institutions’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021, pp. 145-157.
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Peeples, A., ‘Materialist Girl: Toward an Anticolonial Account of Historical Trans Political
Economy’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, 2023, pp. 42–47.

Pereira, P. P. G. ‘Queer nos trópicos’, Contemporânea, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012, pp. 371-394.

Pfeil, B. L. and Pfeil, C. L., ‘Da sombra da cisgeneridade a subjetivações transmasculinas’, in

Pfeil, B. L., Victoriano, N., Pustilnick, N (eds.), Corpos Transitórios: Narrativas
Transmasculinas, Salvador, Diálogos, 2021, pp.157-175.

Pfeil, C. L. ‘Pela emancipação dos corpos trans: transgeneridade e anarquismo’, Revista

Estudos Libertários, vol. 2, no. 5, 2020, pp. 129-155.

Rizki, C. ‘Latin/x American Trans Studies: Toward a Travesti-Trans Analytic’, TSQ:

Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, pp.145–155.

Rocon, P. C. et al, ‘Desafios enfrentados por pessoas trans para acessar o processo
transexualizador do Sistema Único de Saúde’, Interface-Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, vol.
23, 2019, pp.1-14.

Romero, F. F. and Mendieta, A., ‘Toward a Trans* Masculine Genealogy in South America’,
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol.9, no.3, 2022, pp. 524-534.

Sharma, S. D. ‘Provincializing Trans Studies’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 10,
no. 1, 2023, pp. 10-15.

Snyder, H. ‘Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines’,

Journal of Business Research, vol. 104, 2019, pp. 333-339.

Stryker, S. and Currah, P. ‘Introduction’, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1,
2014, pp. 1-18.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, About the Journal (website), 2023,

https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq (accessed 21 February 2024).

5. PRACTICAL RESOURCES
The practical resources to conduct the research are the software Zotero and Excel,
applied to organize articles and read materials.
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6. TIMELINE

Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept

Proposal review

Registration and 01/04

submission of final
proposal

Introduction and due by

Methodology chapter the end
development of April

Review of literature due by

analysis chapter mid May
development

Results and conclusion due by

chapter development the end
of June

Full draft submission to 01/07

supervisor

Full draft review

Thesis submission 01/08

Preparation for defence

Thesis defence 16-18/09

Color code: green = milestone; grey = process

7. RELEVANCE
Whitin studies in the transgender sphere there is a lack of research regarding
transmasculinities in Latin America and Brazil.74 Furthermore, scholars reiterate the
importance of adopting theoretical lenses that are suitable for the region’s characteristics and
reframing perspectives that originated in the Global North.75 These factors reinforce the
relevance of the present study. Within this frame, the reader will be able to grasp an exchange
between theories developed in Brazil and in the Global North. The fact that it is performed in
English will enable a future approximation and possible dissemination of a Brazilian
perspective in an international context. This movement is more frequently done inversely,
where Anglo-Saxon research is circulated in Latin America.76 The reader will obtain
knowledge on transmasculinities from a non-pathological or non-medical angle, from an
analytical frameworks that are critical of those viewpoints. This is important not only regarding
transmasculine issues but can be transposed when thinking about broader themes related to

74
Romero and Mendieta, p.524.
75
Gomes Filho, p.21.; Romero and Mendieta, p.524.
76
Bento, p.139.
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transness or gender. Additionally, the study addresses a topic that is relevant for the
transmasculine community, which often struggles to guarantee their human rights. The chosen
theoretical lens enables a conversation with the community’s perspectives. Also, it proposes a
more trans-centered reading of transmasculinities, from that, a dialogue can be established with
the human rights field, possibly contributing to the way to the way the field addresses the topic.
Finally, knowledge development on the theme contributes to political elaboration of the human
rights violations of the transmasculine population.77

77
Almeida, p.514.