Self-managed strategies of trans communities in the city of Córdoba (Argentina) in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Introduction. We start from judicial experiences -prior to the pandemic- of access to justice and rights of trans groups in cases of extreme violence, in which the courts issued pioneering convictions in which gender-sex identity was recognized in terms of women to trans people who are victims of gender-based violence and hate crimes. It is in this context of progress in rights that the outbreak of the pandemic showed a setback by deepening the gaps and violence against women and LGTBQ+ people. In Latin America, the impact on sex-gender inequalities was observed in the increase in unemployment, poverty and the burden of unpaid care. Objectives and methodologies. The previous conditions of the trans groups were analyzed through the qualitative content analysis of two sentences of importance in their recognition of rights and gender identity in the judicial sphere of Argentina. To then address, from a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology, the self-management strategies carried out in a trans community organization created from the socio-sanitary irruption of COVID-19 in order to generate dynamics of care, self -Care and economic productions in the face of Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation (ASPO) measures. Results. The current context of the COVID-19 pandemic showed the need to deepen relations between a judicial system that responds in coordination with other areas of the State as well as with civil society and the organized community. The arguments of the sentences prior to the pandemic situation and their distance/approach with the practices carried out from the trans collective movements are connected with the need to make visible and transcend micro and macro violence through collective support strategies in the framework of the health emergency in which sex-gender inequalities have deepened.