Freedom of Religion Undermines Freedom of Identity: Heterosexism in Rural Southern Alberta Schools
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Religious involvement is an important source of safety and support for many. However, when non-heterosexuality is factored in, the same protective nature of religiosity is not generalizable. Southern Alberta, known as the bible belt of Canada, is home to a large population of members of conservative Christian faiths and the influence of the doctrine of these faiths can be seen influencing the communities as well as the educational institutions in this area. This paper captures the narratives of secondary students attending a secular school in a rural community in southern Alberta and discusses the findings that students attribute a strong heterosexist presence in the overt and hidden curriculum of their schools at least in part to the dominant religious discourse of the surrounding communities. Student narratives reveal a common perception that freedom of religion is taken more seriously than freedom of identity in their schools. This paper includes an exploration of student insights around educational transformation necessary to create and maintain safe and inclusive school spaces that protect the rights of students with diverse gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".