Reflexiones en torno a una política pública participativa: la encuesta a la población trans en Bariloche (2017)

Abstract

In 2017 the municipality of San Carlos de Bariloche launched the project “Survey of the Trans Population and Dissident Identities”, which became one of the first state initiatives in Argentina aimed at getting to know the living conditions of the people who do not recognize themselves with the gender assigned to them at birth. One distinctive feature of the project was that transgender people from the city participated in the design of the survey and also took part in data building and analysis. Throughout this article, we set out to address two issues: on the one hand, accounting for the complexity of the process through which the issue of transgender people’s access to rights entered into the political agenda; and, on the other, looking into the survey as a public policy developed within the framework of the municipality’s participatory management model. In this regard, we will ponder on the scope, limits and agency that arose from this citizen participation structure in this particular case.