Narrativa de la ofensa y humillación: subversión política de la injuria en mujeres trans

Abstract

The current research generated critical reflections on the violence to which trans women's bodies are subjected in our country. It included the following objectives: a) to understand the discourse of offense and humiliation towards trans women that activate forms of political subversion in trans women. b) to unveil in public speeches used by a representative of the hetero cisnormative hegemonic power, statements of offense and humiliation towards trans women as activators of violence. c) to recognize in public speeches used by trans women, ways of reinvestment or political subversion in the language of offense and humiliation. Methodology that involved the epistemological perspective of the qualitative approach, the Proposal for Hermeneutic Narrative Research (PINH) of Quintero (2018), the political theorist of emotions and study of public discourses of Ahmed (2015), with crossings of the theory of intersectionality of Crenshaw's theory (1991), and the conceptual soundness of Butler's (1997) deconstructive critical theory. Regarding the results, it was found that the statements of offense and humiliation activate violence towards trans women; as well as the political reinvestment of the offense and humiliation that trans women make of the discourse of offense and humiliation. The discourse of offense and humiliation, are exposed as followed: i) devaluative feelings: disgust, hatred and repugnance; ii) rejection of the gender identities of trans women; iii) dispossession from the public sphere. The subcategory political subversion of offense and humiliation from the results section presents that trans women activate public mourning to demand the sustainability of their lives. As an innovation of the research, the emerging categories of the research are presented from the place of the valuative feelings i) love; ii) pride and dignity.