Indignity and necrotransphobia: the compulsory prostitution of trans and transvestite women as a degradation of the fundamental right to work

Abstract

In Western society, especially in Brazil, due to violent structures such as machism and patriarchy, dissident bodies and identities are reduced to a place of abandonment and lack of care, as in the case of transvestites. In this sense, with a view to understanding what we call “compulsory prostitution” and its relationship with the degradation of the fundamental right to work, we initially outline an analysis of this constitutional prerogative from the perspective of the principle of human dignity, in line with constitutionalism Brazilian, which promotes the principles of constitutional supremacy and the maximum effectiveness of constitutional norms. Furthermore, we enter the field of gender analysis, using the concepts of cisgenderity, cisnormativity, transvestility and transfeminism itself, to understand how the right to work deteriorates with hegemonic norms. To understand such deterioration, we defend the existence of necrotransphobia, a concept derived from studies on necropolitics. To this end, we carried out a bibliographical research, also based on normative research, which resulted in the understanding that compulsory prostitution is the result of necrotransphobic logic, a direct consequence of cisnormativity that dehumanizes and indignifies non-cisgender identities.