Trans Lives Matter: Representative Bureaucracy and Transgender People in Kerala
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transgender people are amongst the most stigmatised and marginalised members of society. Many continue to face state sanctioned discrimination. Kerala, India stands out in supporting and advancing transgender people through progressive politics by affording them fundamental human rights. We were interested in learning more about how the Communist government in Kerala, motivated by its ideology, support and improve the lives of transgender people. With this question in mind, we seek out to interview government officials and transgender women to deepen our understanding of how the government advances a socially marginalised group. Guided by public administration literature, we find transgender representation in government can improve the lives of the transgender community. The Kerala government took steps to first recognize transgender people and give them standing in society. The government also hired them and offered them economic and educational opportunities. Transgender people became self-sufficient and began serving others in the community. In this way, the Kerala government reengaged transgender people through citizenship, collective action, and civic participation. Our study highlights the central role representative bureaucracy play in improving and lifting marginalised citizens.
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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 it