Fora da norma?: conflitos dogmáticos nas demandas por retificação de nome e sexo no registro civil

Abstract

This thesis analyzes name and sex demands of rectification in the civil registry of travestis and transgenders and its expression on legal grammar, by means of a quantitative and qualitative empirical research of legal cases raised by Direito à identidade: Viva seu nome!, a project from G8-Generalizando – sexual and gender rights group of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) clinic legal program. It uses case study procedure method and techniques of documentary research, in relation to the group processes, and field research, with the application of semi-structured interviews with agents involved in the lawsuits. Based on the Critical Legal Theory, it is observed the configuration of a dogmatic dispute on the regulatory form of civil name and sex. By its critical evaluation, it was concluded that is possible to design another regulatory framwork of these legal institutes, a social and autonomous regulation capable of offering greater legitimacy to the operation of law and also greater autonomy for travestis and transgenders on their own identities.