The construction of the stigma of transvestites in Brasil: informal market, precariousness and sexual work

Abstract

This article seeks to comprehend the occupation of transvestite on the labor market in Brazil through a critical analysis of historicity of labor law whose patriarchal, racist and heteronormative legal structure relegates ‘weird bodies’ dissidents to a specific space, in the case of transvestites, mainly sexual work and at best, to the telemarketing sector or beauty salons. To this end, a bibliographical consultation was carried out, prioritizing woman trans and transvestite researchers, to analyze the construction and perception of gender in Brazil and their experiences in the labor plan, marked by marginalization, informality and precariousness. It is concluded by this research that there is a need for a refoundation of labor law under the light of queer theory which proposes to break the essentialism of labor law as a way to contemplate plural bodies under which labor laws do not present themselves as an instrument of protection.