The Difficulties Faced by the Transexual Citizen During the Sexual Redesignation Process: A review of literature

Introduction: The process of sexual reassignment has been a topic of political, medical, social and anthropological debate. Sex reassignment is characterized as the process that individuals who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth go through in order to correct what they believe is appropriate. Objective: To identify the difficulties faced by transsexual citizens during the process of sexual reassignment. Method: The work carried out followed the precepts of an exploratory study, through bibliographic research following the stages: 1st selection of the most relevant databases and articles on the process of sexual reassignment, from the last 5 years (2016-2021) which resulted in 36 national articles, 4 international articles and 2 books taken from the Google Scholar, Scielo, PUBMED, LILACS, MEDLINE databases, in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. 2nd data collection with selective and exploratory reading, followed by recording the information collected. 3rd analysis and interpretation of the results after analytical reading of the data collected. 4th discussion of the results, after in-depth analysis of the theoretical references relating to the subject of the study. Results: In relation to this phenomenon, it is understood that the purpose of the correction, in the case of transsexuals, is the marked disharmony between sex and gender, which sometimes causes unbearable suffering, arising from the coercive force of gender on sex, suffering that impels them to demand that medicine intervene in the real body. Faced with this reality, various outpatient-surgical methods have been offered to these individuals, but it is clear that there are many obstacles to achieving this process.