Transgender Healthcare Process in Brazil: Facilities and Services from 2010

Processo Transexualizador no Brasil em 2026 maps health establishments directed at the trans and travesti population in Brazil from the 2010s. The study located 189 establishments providing some type of care, with 171 offering outpatient services including hormone therapy and 28 establishments authorized by the Ministry of Health. The dataset was authored by Pedro Figueiredo Nolasco and last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the geographic distribution of specialized healthcare services for transgender people based on the location of 189 establishments.
• Analyze the types of services offered (e.g., outpatient, surgical) based on the counts of facilities in different authorization categories.
• Assess the capacity of the public health system for transgender care based on the number of Ministry of Health-authorized facilities.
• Study the evolution of service availability over time based on the data's coverage starting from the 2010s.

Strengths

• Contains specific counts for different facility types: 189 total establishments, 171 offering outpatient services, and 28 authorized by the Ministry of Health.
• Focuses on a specific and historically underserved population: transgender and travesti individuals in Brazil.
• Provides a temporal scope for analysis, with data collection starting from the 2010s.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update was 2026-06-16.

Provenance

Source

Figueiredo Nolasco, Pedro

Collection Method

The description suggests the data was gathered by mapping and locating health establishments.

Time Range

From the 2010s onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 11:48:20

Geography

Brazil