A Jurisprudência Brasileira da Transexualidade: uma reflexão à luz de Dworkin

Abstract

Transsexuality is one of the most controversial topics in bioethics. The issue is clouded by asymmetric self-judegements of the world linked to religious conceptions, which ultimately minimize the legal aspects related to the fundamental right to sexual identity. Through the analysis of different bills dealing with the issue of transsexuality we intend to demonstrate that the failure of the performance of majoritarian political process in satisfying social demands specific transsexuals have been supplied by the pedagogical role of the performance of some courts and the Superior Court of Justice on the interpretation of the right to change the given name and sex. Currently proposing to investigate the relevance of the strategy to reconcile values in a harmonious network for the analysis of the legal principles involved in the issue of change of first name, sex and transsexuals.