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The article presents a mapping of the scientific
production regarding the access to health by the transsexual
population after 2008, an important year for trans health in
Brazil, in which the Transsexualizing Process of the Brazilian
Unified Health System (Processo Transexualizador do Sistema
Único de Saúde, in Portuguese) was created. The goal of
the present work was to conduct an integrative review of
the literature regarding the access to health by the Brazilian
transsexual and transvestite population in the MEDLINE,
LILACS and SciELO databases, using the following descriptors:
‘transsexuality,’ ‘transsexualism,’ ‘transvestitism,’ ‘transvestite’
and ‘transgendered,’ and 22 articles were selected. Considering
the scientific production analyzed, we verified countless
challenges regarding the access of the trans population to
the Brazilian Unified Health System, such as discrimination,
pathologization of transsexuality, lack of training on the
part of the professionals, improper embracement, lack of
resources to fund policies and programs geared towards
the fight against discrimination due to homophobia or trans/transvestite-phobia, as well as the lack of guarantee
of specific services – such as the transsexualizing process.
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