Various shades of “no”: reports from Primary Health Care professionals assisting lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals (LGBTT)

摘要

The populations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals (LGBTT) experienceobstacles in the access to Primary Health Care services and in the assistance offered by them. In thisstudy, we aim to analyze reports of professionals who assist these populations in the Family HealthStrategy. It was a qualitative research carried out through oral reports. Thirty-two professionals fromdifferent categories who worked in a Primary Health Care unit in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil participated in thestudy. The analysis was guided by three dimensions - recognition, redistribution and representation - andshowed that it is necessary to interconnect, within the same principle of justice, the space of recognitionof sexual and gender diversity (cultural field), the space of inequalities linked to the exploration andredistribution of resources (organizational field), and the space of representation and participation ofLGBTT populations (political and social field), in the circular logic of the health services.