Adoração e aberração: retóricas em torno de candidaturas proporcionais transexuais e travestis nos portais Uol e Globo nas eleições municipais de 2020

Abstract

The work focus political representation from the perspective of journalistic coverage of transsexual and transvestite candidacies in the 2020 Brazilian proportional elections. The investigation is justified by the political context established after Bolsonaro's election in 2018, which heated political debates, intensified the country's polarization and potentiated conservative discourses. From the views of Berenice Bento and Guacira Lopes Louro, we understand the experiences of people outside the cisheteronormativity in different social fields in Brazil. With theories from Butler and Foucault, we discuss gender concepts and the influence of these expressions on the power relations of the current “system”. We analyzed articles from the Uol and Globo portals to understand how journalism covered these candidacies and which speeches were highlighted. We realize that there are advances in narratives about candidacies, with a decrease in the dehumanizing vocabulary, but it is necessary to compromise technical standards of the profession so that journalistic coverage is more inclusive, including generating jobs, and overcoming prejudices rooted in society.