Experiences of discrimination of transgender people: The intersectional matrix of oppressions

The goal of this paper is to understand how Brazilian and Portuguese trans people perceive their positions of privilege and oppression, making it possible to build a narrative around the intersectional matrix of oppression and its influences on the processes of identity de/construction. Thirty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted with people who self-identified as trans, transsexual and travestis, in Brazil and Portugal. Their discourses were analyzed according to Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis. This study focused on the intersectional matrix of oppression. Based on the conclusions of this study, it is possible to affirm that the way people de/construct their identities is related to how they think about transsexualities and live them in an intersection with their historical, sociocultural, economic, and political contexts, creating reading matrices on gender that cross the (always diverse) expressions of their identities, reinforcing that several oppressions are intersectioned.