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BASTERRECHEA, Johana et al. Conceptions about transsexuality in medical students from Carabobo University. Salus [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.1, pp.10-15. ISSN 1316-7138.

Until recently transsexuality was considered an anomaly, which led to the discrimination and stigmatization of transsexual people. This is not only limited to the general population, but quite possibly affects health professionals as well, which has an impact on how transsexual individuals access health care services. The conceptions about transsexuality of fifth-year medical students of the North Integrated Clinical Department of the University of Carabobo in year 2016 were analized. The nature of the research was descriptive, with a non-experimental and cross-sectional design and a quantitative analysis, with qualitative elements, and was based on the Valdez and Figueroa natural semantic networks method. The survey was administered to 100 students; each of them expressed in five words their representation of the concept and ranked it according to the importance they assigned to it. The sample profile indicates a majority of female students, 67%, the most common religious background was Catholic, 72%, and most of them were heterosexual, 91%. A total of 193 defining words emerged, of which Change (100%), Homosexuality (57.46%) and Freedom (41.79%) were the ones with more semantic weight. Students’ conceptions about transsexuality are mainly oriented towards a dimension of recognition and sexual /sex/gender orientation. Results showed the existence of important misconceptions about the term transsexuality.

Palavras-chave : Conceptions; transsexuality; medical students; natural semantic networks.

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