Bibliographic record
Abstract
Horrific human rights violations have forced many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people to seek refuge in countries like Canada with stronger human rights laws and protection. Canada, in particular, has an international reputation for being a ‘welcoming’ nation and a ‘safe’ haven for refugee claimants. However, this paper reveals that LGBTQ+ persons seeking asylum in Canada based on their sexual orientation and gender identity/expression (SOGIE), experience distinct challenges in navigating the determination process, especially in relation to their mental health and safety. One of the most harmful aspects of the refugee determination process for LGBTQ+ refugee claimants is the need to ‘prove’ one’s sexual orientation and gender identity / expression. This paper thus provides recommendations for re-evaluating testimony and evidence based on fear of persecution, not on ‘proving’ the sexual orientation or gender identity / expression of claimants.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.037 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".