Gender Identities and Transsexulities

Code:

PDSH10

Acronym:

IGT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S (since 08-02-2021 to 29-05-2021)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Human Sexuality

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSH	1	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

At the end of this UC “Gender Identities and Transexualities” the students should be able to:

• Understand, throughout theoretical support, the complexity of the gender identities’ approach, the plurality of such identities, as well as its relationship with other dimensions of sexual identities;
• Develop a critical consciousness on subjective, relational, familial and sociocultural implications of the traditional biomedical approach to transexualities;
• Integrate on other UC acquired knowledge (specially on the UC Gender and Sexualities) a critical reflection on the ways, processes and research results related with the Trans(gender/sexuals) live paths;
• Develop skills towards the implementation of Trans-Affirmative logics of research and/or of professional performance with gender non-conforming people/ Trans(gender/sexuals);
• Understand the relevance of multiple ways of experiencing and/or expressing gender identities in a broader consideration sexualities framework.

Learning outcomes and competences

Using mainly expositive methodologies and critical reflection, the UC allows the students to attain global aims essentially on a theoretical and conceptual nature and, more specifically, provide proficiency on critical self-reflection fundamental to the intervention and research with the populations named by the UC. Group discussion allows learning’s consolidation through the necessary sustained argumentations.

Working method

À distância

Program

1. Concepts related with the gender experiences and expressions and/or Trans identities - a critical analysis of achievements and limitations through sexualities’ analysis.


2. Biomedical model and pathologizing tradition of transexualities - critical analysis and histotico-cultural understanding of this model’s inadequacies.


3. Trans feminisms, intersectionality and formal and social recognition of the Trans(gender/sexuals) identities: alternative self-determination of bodies, experiences and/or identities;


4. Trans (De)pathologization: positionings, debates and contemporary struggles.


5. Intervention and Research Trans- Affirmative: ethics, principles and knowledge integration and professional performance with the Trans(gender/sexual) population .

Issues 1 and 5 of the syllabus allow the achievement of the first outcome - knowledge on gender identities and their complexities-, as well as a broader understanding on human sexualities.

Issues 2 and 4 lead to the development of a crticical awareness on Trans(sexual/gender) relational circles and life trajectories; such critical awareness on biomedical approach discontents will be also promoted through these issues.

Last, issues 3 and 5 ( to issue 4) will support trans-affirmative perspectives.

Mandatory literature

Liliana Graciete Fonseca Rodrigues; Viagens trans(género) em Portugal e no Brasil
APA; Guidelines for psychological pratice, 2015
Lev A; Transgender emergence, 2004
Missé M; Transexaulidades , 2014
Platero L; Trans*exualidades, 2014
Liliana Rodrigues, Nuno Santos Carneiro e Conceição Nogueira; Problematização do feminismo interseccional: o lugar das pessoas trans(género) no Brasil e em Portugal, 2018
Liliana Rodrigues, Nuno Santos Carneiro e Conceição Nogueira; Violência transfóbica: aproximações críticas e horizontes de resistência, 2017

Teaching methods and learning activities

• Expositive method, aiming the update of core concepts.


• Critical review promotion, in order to capacitate the student on a reflexivity exercise.


• Group discussion, seeking the enforcement of perspectives and theories vindication.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	22,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Each student must deliver an individual report resulting from the research on a theme, to their choice, that lies within the global perspective of the UC.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

A written assignment (100%).

Classification improvement

The students my submit an improved version of the report