Research recognizes that transgender people are facing high levels of discrimination and victimization, showing a correlation between intimidation and the hiding of transgender identity. Despite this, trans people exist and resist, this article explores the process of trans people in the recognition of their identity through narrative productions, investigating the experience of choosing a new name and the experience of social re-identification. A process of narrative production was done in a group of three trans persons between 28 and 35 years old, living in the Valparaíso region of Chile during the year 2021. Through this methodology, it was described to be trans as: a complex identity difficult to comprehend from institutional frameworks; an individual and collective experience as it requires company and referents to develop, as well as it was visualized that trans identity contains the movement as an essential part of its constitution. The following article highlights the transcendence of writing in first person and narrative practices as actions of resistance to the dominant cis-gender scientific knowledge, offering an insight into the trans experience and embodied knowledge.
Keywords:
Gender identity, Narrative production, Social re-identification
Fuenzalida Muñoz, F. A., & Gamonal Nuñez, J. (2025). Naming Oneself Trans in Chile: Narrative Productions by Trans People on the Recognition of Their Identity. Nomadías, (33). Retrieved from https://revistaderechopublico.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/77897
