Direitos de personalidade e transexualidade: a promoção da dignidade da pessoa humana em uma perspectiva plural

Abstract

Since the advent of the Constitution of 1988, there has been a reformulation of the role of the person, who starts to occupy the center of the system. This movement had consequences which spread out through the entire juridical system. In this context, the transsexuals, people who do not identify with their own biological sex, need to find their space, and in order to do so, it is necessary to understand that what is related to sex and sexuality cannot be reduced to a simplified biological view. However, socially, who does not fit in with the binomial male/female is predestined to rejection, discrimination, exclusion, which is paradoxically contrary to the existing sexual diversity. In a society that insists on dual bets, in which prevails prejudice and consequently social exclusion, recognizing plurality and diversity is the indispensable condition to promote dignity. Surgery and the possibility of sex reassignment are ways to the recognition of this dignity. The principle of human dignity constitutes a valu