Family transgressions, trans kinship and experience of care

Abstract

For transfeminine people, the life trajectory is usually anchored to realities of exclusion and marginalization. The need to unite with other trans women in this case is fundamental. The present work explores one of these dimensions: the care that will be understood associated with the figure of trans kinship that transcends the merely biological, to become an instrumental, symbolic and affective possibility that allows them to accompany and support each other. A qualitative methodology investigation was carried out, with a hermeneutic design, with the participation of nine adult women with different roles within trans kinship: mothers, daughters, sisters, using data collection methodologies such as in-depth interviews and participant observation. The data was analyzed using the data coding system proposed by Strauss and Corbin (2002). The purpose of the work is to account for the way in which the relational and community dimensions of care are perceived in the experience of trans kinship constructed and lived by a group of trans women from the city of Bogotá.