You do not fit the profile: social representations about the labor market for transexuals

Abstract

This article proposes to raise as social representations of transsexuals in the labor market, also perceiving it as a constituent of the individual's identity. The participants were two men and three transsexual women, aged between 18 and 47 years old, living in the AMREC region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In data collection, use a Future Projection technique, which allows reports and dramatizations of scenes from professional representations. The content was analyzed using the IRAMUTEQ software, in the text topic classes and the main classes were “Work experiences in the future and in the past” and “Social Perception”, each with 25% text segments. With the access to social representations of transsexuals, it was possible to perceive the influence that prejudice has on the formation of the career of the population that served as a sample for that research.