Examining the experience of trans identity and gender transition through the lens of cisgender siblings: A phenomenological investigation
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Abstract
Previous research on the transitioning process has focused on the experiences of transgender/gender nonbinary individuals and their parents, paying limited attention to the trans persons' siblings.The purpose of this study was to examine how youth and young adults experience a trans sibling's gender identity and transition.Using qualitative methodology, eleven cisgender participants (M = 17.9;SD = 4.9; range = 14 to 34 years old) were individually interviewed in medium-and large-sized Canadian cities.Interview topics included: the participant's role in their sibling's transition; the impact of the transition on the participant and their family and peer relationships; and the participant's attitudes toward services aimed at supporting themselves through their sibling's transition.Interview transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).Ten participants completed member checking procedures to verify the accuracy of the data.Participants described wide-ranging emotional responses and overall positive attitudes toward their sibling's trans identity and transition.Participants highlighted the importance of demonstrating to their trans sibling respect, compassion, and support.The adjustment process by the immediate family unit was regarded as manageable overall.Challenging interpersonal dynamics involving participants' parents, extended family members, peers, and other extra familial individuals were discussed.Perspectives on the value and preferred type of structured support for siblings of trans individuals varied across participants.These findings provide novel insight into the lived experiences of siblings of trans people, thereby enriching our understanding of the transition process as experienced by the collective family unit.Study findings offer practical guidance for trans individuals, their parents, siblings, and clinicians.Strategies to improve support programs for trans individuals and their family members are addressed.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".