Talking with Iranian trans women: Their experiences and identity development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction This research sought to discover the psychological experiences of trans women born and raised in Iran, which incorporates the cultural surround unique to Iran.Method Fourteen trans women aged from 18 to 48, narrated their lives through in-depth interviews. We applied Corbin and Strauss’ (2015) approach to analyze the data in developing a Grounded Theory.Results Confusing Gender Identity (the Core Category) and eight other categories, including macro- and micro-contextual factors, actions/interactions, and consequences, depicted the processes in trans women’s lives; namely Destructive Family Environments, Traumatic Backgrounds, Impediments in Legislative and Medical Systems, disturbed feelings about Masculine Violation, Insecure Relationships, Self-devaluation, Gray Fortunes, and Social Insecurity. A conceptual model is developed from the findings that represent their relationships most comprehensively.Conclusion Findings Shed Light on female trans individuals’ lives and clarifies the contextual factors in gender-related fields that need extra care from scientific, educational, legislative, and health care associations and professionals in Iran to enhance the overall health of the transgender community as well as the rest of the society. Also, as most findings of the transgender population result from western cultures, this research provided a comprehensive understanding of trans women in a different cultural and political climate.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".