"Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?": nurses' representations on 'transvestite' people.

Objectives: to learn and analyze the structure of nurses' social representations about transvestite people.

Methods: a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, with 110 nurses enrolled in Graduate Nursing courses, who answered the Free-Association Test, with the stimulus 'transvestite'. Data were processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant I' Analysedes Évocations.