Finishing basic education for trans and transvestites was already a challenge. However, entering a university to pursue an academic career is an even more distant dream for most of these people. Even though it is still small, the presence of trans teachers and student collectives LGBTQIA+ it already makes a lot of difference and has helped bring about this diversity, combating prejudices and guiding new debates on the campuses (university complex). However, they end up facing structural problems and resistance from most teachers and students.
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Ana Ligia Scott, a 53-year-old professor of molecular biophysics, who has been working at the Federal University of ABC Paulista (UFABC) since 2007, went through her gender transition process at the end of 2016. Highly respected among the academic community in which she had already been working for over ten years when she started the process, she began to act as a guide for students and colleagues who were dealing with the topic through first time.
“At the time, we only had two trans students that I had contact with. But there was nobody among the professors and staff, it was really something new”, she recalls. During her transition process and her advances, she was forced to be open with the classes in which she taught. “I felt a great need to inform them, because they had known me for a long time and were starting to get to know me. strange look, so I wrote a letter, stuck it on the classroom door and called the students to talk in the laboratory".
She was surprised by the reaction of the students, who asked if that was all she wanted to communicate, as they thought they were going to close the lab. In addition, they also reported that they were happy for her. Some of Ana's colleagues on the faculty were less kind. She revealed that the first time she used the girls' bathroom, she was made a transphobic joke by another teacher, and also that two other colleagues refused to use the same elevator as her, as if she had a disease contagious.
As her transition appeared, Ana decided to change her social name in all academic systems, something that theoretically it is possible and with an immediate result within public offices, thanks to a decree of the year 2015. But it took months of conversation, emails and threats of judicialization for Ana to actually have her name. exchanged within Fapesp, CNPq and Capes systems, which are directly linked to the function of researcher.
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