The Role of Name Choice in the Construction of Transgender Identities
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper investigates the significance of re-naming oneself during the process of transitioning amongst transgender individuals. Onomastics has been a widely studied subject and it is a common belief that names are a fundamental aspect of social identities. Names play a significant role in indexing individuals, gender is often indexed through a person’s name and it can be troublesome when the name and gender do not seem to align. The notion of finding oneself and representing one’s true identity through a name is a very large part of transitioning one’s gender identity, but not any name will do, rather each individual is searching for a ‘true’ name. That is to say a name that embodies the essence of who they are, which includes a feeling that their name is solely them. This enables them to construct for themselves an identity to put forward in society that they feel confident about.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it