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. 2020 Dec 21;73(suppl 6):e20190749.
doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0749. eCollection 2020.

"Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?": nurses' representations on 'transvestite' people

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Ester Mascarenhas Oliveira  1 , Jeane Freitas de Oliveira  2 , Cleuma Sueli Santos Suto  3 , Carle Porcino  2 , Sara Peixoto de Almeida Brandão  2 , Daiane Santos Oliveira  2 , Dejeane de Oliveira Silva  4
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"Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?": nurses' representations on 'transvestite' people

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Ester Mascarenhas Oliveira et al. Rev Bras Enferm. .
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Abstract

Objectives: to learn and analyze the structure of nurses' social representations about transvestite people.

Methods: a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, with 110 nurses enrolled in Graduate Nursing courses, who answered the Free-Association Test, with the stimulus 'transvestite'. Data were processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant I' Analysedes Évocations.

Results: in the central nucleus, the term "prejudice" was the most evoked, followed by "homosexual", "identity" and "female-make-up". Social representation is anchored in the social organization in which transvestite people are still seen and/or associated with homosexuals who make up and assume an identity, without being seen and/or understood as they really are.

Final considerations: although prejudice is noteworthy as a central element, terms present in the peripheral system reveal that the group recognizes transvestites as a person with rights, which can translate into health care practices.

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