Gender Identities and Transsexulities

Code:

PDSH10

Acronym:

IGT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

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	17	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Teaching will be in Portuguese, with materials in both Portuguese and English. The assessment will be in English if the student requests it.

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

Presencial

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