Role models and well-being among trans and non-binary youth
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Abstract
Abstract Background It is important for young people to see themselves represented in stories, on television and in different job opportunities, so they can have an awareness of what is possible. While we often hear the words “representation matters,” research on how representation affects health outcomes of trans and non-binary (TNB) youth is lacking. In this presentation, we will use the Social Cognitive Theory to identify how the presence of role models relates to social and health outcomes of TNB youth across Canada. Methods The 2019 online Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey included 1,519 TNB youth ranging from 14-25 years old. Youth identified as 43.7% trans masculine, 12.3% trans feminine, and 44% non-binary. Analyses explore differences in the relationship between the presence of TNB role models and social and health outcomes using crosstabulations and chi square tests, logistic regressions, and ANOVAs, by age and across gender identity groups. Results Youth with role models had a higher odds of participating in school sports [OR = 1.3, 95% CI: 1.03 - 1.59] and youth who had a role model they want to be like were significantly more likely to report living in their felt gender (p = .036). The relationship between TNB youth's identification of role models and being able to think of something they are good at, living in their felt gender, avoiding public spaces, future school plans, sports involvement, self-rated physical and mental health, emotional wellbeing and general health outcomes across developmental groupings will be discussed. Demographic and contextual factors that moderate the relationship between role models and social/health outcomes will also be presented. Conclusions Youth with role models have better social and emotional well-being. The importance of role models for TNB youth should not be diminished. We will share the implications of our findings for health promotion and public health policy, as well as recommendations for further research.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".