This social investigation aims to identify the presence of discussions of gender and sexuality in the curricular planning of the Federal Institute of Maranhão, based on the assumption that the pedagogical autonomy that underlies the IFs can contribute, in political and training clashes, to the victory of the inclusion of such discussions which constitute crucial contents or themes in integral human formation, which is one of the structuring elements of such institutes. therefore, this qualitative bibliographic research used document analysis as a data collection technique. The discussions of gender and sexuality at IFMA have a curricular character of necessary exceptionality in the sense that they need to be discursively defended for proper institutional alignment with the founding pedagogical concepts of the institution, but their unquestionable need was not enough to transform them into content planned and explicit curricula in each teaching unit.
