"My name is Natasha"

New narratives about transgenderity in Brazilian serial fiction after acquired rigths

Abstract

This paper is interested in analyzing the discursive strategies employed by Rede Globo in its serial television fiction to address transgenderity and rights after acquired rigths from the approval of laws favorable to this social group in decisions of the Supreme Federal Court. STF guaranteed, in 2018, to transgender people have their gender identity and name changed in the civil registry without needing surgery and, in 2019, criminalized LGBT phobia. Thus, scenes from four productions (Malhação, A Dona do Pedaço, Bom Sucesso and Segunda Chamada), which had trans characters since the implementation of the laws, were followed in observation journals. Finally, it is understood that, with all the characters, there was an approach linked to rights even without referring directly to the laws, contributing to new narratives about transgenderity on television.