Labor consequences of the transition from male lesbian to male transsexual in the labor market of Aguascalientes, Mexico

Abstract

Labor discrimination towards sexual and gender diversity is a set of practices that have generated a series of negative consequences that have an impact on the constitution of the subjects and the increase in inequalities in the LGBTQ + community. Discriminatory practices begin with difficulties in access to work and continue in development and permanence in it, which is conditioned by the type of market accessed (formal and informal) and sexual diversity or gender identity. The people who are more likely to suffer discrimination in the labor market are those who have a greater number of inequalities and who, in addition, do not have a gender expression congruent to that of their biological sex. Such is the case of male lesbians, effeminate gays, and transsexuals, transgenders, and transvestites. A historical and occupational reconstruction of the experience of five transsexual men who had previously been socialized as male lesbians was carried out. The analysis was carried out from the Queer theoretical proposal and intersectionality. The First Survey on Discrimination and Survey on Discrimination on the grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 2018 was analyzed to know the national panorama on the labor conditions of male lesbians and transsexual men. The main social, economic and health consequences that they experience were identified. transsexual men, as well as the processes of acceptance and inclusion that arise from their transit.