Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 23 Issue 8

As follows, there is a prevalence of journalistic texts in the Cities, Classifieds, and Culture sections, with 452, 295, and 283 occurrences, which add up, respectively, 36.88%, 24.18%, and 23.19% of the total. The remaining 15.57% include the occurrences of other sections, which shows an imbalance in the guidelines arranged in Interior, North and Northeast, Health and Sports, and leads to the partial confirmation of the established hypothesis. In addition to the variation in discursive approaches to the words transvestite and transsexual seen over the years, the summit of articles that address these words takes place between 1985, and 1987, totaling 100 texts (about 8% of the total); followed by the intervals 1960-1965, 1974-1975, and 1998-1999, with 90 Another important point concerns the silencing of these terms in the newspaper in the years 1966, 1974, 1975, 1981, and 1982, reflections of the Military Dictatorship. In the years 1988, 1989, and 1990, references to transvestites and transsexuals appear without relevance, that is, they do not appear in the headlines and news or do not have the force of meaning. In this way, we believe that such periods can be referred to as a kind of opportune space to re-signify the terms, which justifies the gaps in Data table I and leads us to the need to investigate this theme in a future opportunity. V. T emporal P erspective – P olitical and S ocial C hanges Over the decades, we noticed, by the position of these individuals, a change in their regime of visibility. From the 1960s onwards, the word transvestite appears in the newspaper, more specifically in the culture editorial, and, in that period (1960-1965), it represented 88% of occurrences. It is important to note that the culture editor was created in 1958, a period marked by the end of the post- war general scarcity, the arrival of television in Brazil, and the expansion of the Brazilian press. At that time, significant changes took place in several newspapers, such as the inclusion of photos on the front pages and a considerable increase in content organized in various sections. In this sense, the newspaper underwent an expansion of formats and content produced and the culture section was an important department that disseminated the cultural and counter-cultural movements that were significant at the time. That said, we believe that its origin is based on the idea that the first section, Cities, would remain with the husband and the second, Culture, with the woman, which reinforces a binary way of thinking, that is, it divides and normalizes the production of discourses, a fact that naturalizes so-called “feminine” and “masculine” contents and which, once again, confirms the hypotheses we have established. If before the dictatorial period, in the early 1960s, transvestites gained existence in the art, and culture section – associated with performance, dance, and theater shows -, during the Dictatorship the discourse was modified, and these individuals were relegated to the police pages. © 2023 Global Journals Volume XXIII Issue VIII Version I 11 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2023 G Discursive Walls: Mapping Trans Coverage through Folha de S. Paulo between 1960 and 2017 texts each (about 7% of the total each).