El uso de la foto de perfil en Twitter como representación de la identidad y expresión de género de las personas transgénero en las redes sociales

Guille Jiménez-Cantón; Juan Carlos Pérez-González

doi:10.51698/aloma.2025.43.1.1-9

Autores/as

Guille Jiménez-Cantón Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8082-2634
Juan Carlos Pérez-González Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4025-7516

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51698/aloma.2025.43.1.1-9

Palabras clave:

Identidad, Redes Sociales, Género, Transgénero, LGBT

Resumen

Para descubrir cómo las personas transgénero utilizan las herramientas de las redes sociales para expresar su género, se analizaron 300 perfiles de la red social Twitter según su foto de perfil y la inclusión o no de pronombres en su biografía. Mediante análisis de ji cuadrado se descubrió que no hay relación entre pertenecer al grupo trans o al grupo de comparación y el uso de una foto propia, pero sí la hay cuando la foto de perfil no es una foto propia: las personas transgénero utilizan más ilustraciones que las representen mientras que las personas del grupo de comparación usan más fotos ajenas o no modifican la imagen por defecto al crear el perfil. Además, ambos grupos usan los pronombres en la biografía de forma diferente: el grupo trans de manera explícita y el grupo de comparación de manera implícita. Ambos hallazgos apuntan a que las personas transgénero combinan una representación idealizada y a la vez auténtica de sí mismas en las redes sociales.

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