THE TRANSEXUAL DISPOSITIVE AND THE TRANS VISIBILITIES ON WEB

Abstract

The article proposes, in the wake of discursive studies inspired by Michel Foucault's explanations, to analyze how certain lines of visibility and enunciability are constituted that produce the transsexual subject from the notion of device. For this, it was sought on the internet to capture materialities that deal with trans existence in various orders of knowledge, such as Medicine, Justice, Journalistic Media, etc. From this point of view, it appears that, lately, there are different possibilities for transsexual subjects to become visible in social media. By such practices, the construction of self-narratives on social media is understood, as well as objectification practices that try to produce truths about these subjects. The question that guides the study is: how is the transsexual subjectified in WEB materialities that allow them to enunciate (about) their existences? The analysis is based on the following materialities: i) video from the Mandy Candy channel; ii) News from the Ceará Government website about the use of a social name by transgender people in the state; iii) News about the age of transsexual subjects; iv) News about the Brazilian transsexual actress Glamor Garcia and her debut in the TV show “A dona do pedaço” of Rede Globo's piece in 2019. It is understood, with the study, that digital media allow different visibilities and enunciations to trans subjects, either by the spectacular intimate, whether in the objectification of the subject by the different fields of knowledge through descriptive, categorizing or narrative practices that inscribe truths about the genders.