Trans People in Argentine Graduate Studies: Initial Discussions for a State of the Knowledge

Abstract

This article investigates the experiences of Black and Indigenous trans people in Argentine Higher Education. The objective is to map and discuss the academic production, identifying advances and gaps, especially about intersectional studies. The study is anchored in Paul Preciado (2017; 2019), Letícia Nascimento (2021), and Jack Halberstam (2020), who understand trans identities as forms of gender dissidence. The analysis also draws on Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge’s (2020) intersectional perspective, which considers the articulation of gender, race, and other social markers. Methodologically, it is a bibliographic, exploratory research with qualitative and quantitative approaches. The corpus was built from the repository of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), using the descriptors persona trans and posgrado, resulting in four publications between 2021 and 2024. The findings indicate that research on this topic remains incipient, reinforcing the need to expand scientific production.