“This is all normal and normal is relative to you”: LGBTQ+ Parents’ Experiences Discussing Sex and Sexuality with their Children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Parent viewpoints on sexuality and sex education are important as parents are key stakeholders in their children’s education. However, research in this area has primarily focused on mothers and fathers in heterosexual couplings. There is a lack of information on how LGBTQ+ parents speak about sexual health with their children. This research project explored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents speaking to their children about sex and sexuality through a mixed methods, online survey. A resource list for parents of inclusive materials for sex education with children was also developed. LGBTQ+ parents focus on openness and normalization when discussing sex and sexuality with their children. LGBTQ+ parents also want their children’s peers educated about LGBTQ+ families and experiences, as well as consent, to help keep their children safer. Finally, parents in this study desired a comprehensive, current, sex education curriculum in schools, and they disapproved of the Ontario government pulling the 2015 sex education curriculum.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".