Regulation of Life in the Brazilian Transexualizing Process: an analysis of public policy

Abstract The history of the Brazilian transexualizing process is marked by legal resolution of the demand, medicalization of the trans experience and regulation of life by the state. This program has proven to be selective because of a diagnosis supported by the binary heterosexual matrix for genders, which serves as a criteria for entering the programs, which does not guarantee universal access to healthcare services. A qualitative approach was taken accompanied by document research. The data were analyzed based on Foucault's categories of discipline, biopolitics and biopower. It concludes that the transexualizing process has served as a disciplinary measure over the population that uses it, and as a mechanism for the administration of the trans life in the population. Thus, the selectivity can be understood as a result of the action of the state that, in the exercise of biopower, conducts a division between who will live and who will die.