Abstract
The article has as a central proposal to analyze a set of rationalities that cross the configuration of the processes of incrimination-criminalization of trans women. Taking a police operation that began on February 27, 1987 in the city of São Paulo – Tarantula Operation – as a key event, the aim here is to understand how the so-called operation arises as a condition of possibility of a specific socio-political context; in addition to it, this article points to a modus operandi that understands trans women as bodies based on a politics of enmity and of abjection. Investigating whether such lines of force that make up the materiality of a police operation continue to produce effects 30 years later is also the purpose of this text. From the analysis of different records, we can see that the activation of moral panic directed to trans women bodies mobilizes circuits of rationalities capable of adding discourses on public security in dynamics of penal selectivity coming from necropolitcs compositions. Understanding the conditions that make possible the relations between the criminal state and the trans women that occurred at the moment of redemocratization of Brazil, we can perceive traces of the elements that still pervade these relations.
Trans Women; Abjection; Necropolitics; Public Security
