SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF TRANSGENDER BABY BOOMERS IN QUÉBEC: RESULTS FROM A CASE STUDY OF ACTIVISTS
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Abstract
Abstract The systematic discrimination linked to the intersection of gender identity and advanced age in transgender older adults results in further social participation restrictions and higher risk of disability (65% of transgender adults report poor mental health). Despite the importance of participation for health, little is known about the social participation of transgender older adults, especially among the new generation, the baby boomers. This study thus aimed to explore the social participation for transgender older adults. Based on the Iridescent Life Course theory, a case study was carried out with 2 transgender baby boomer community-dwelling from Quebec (Canada). Two French-speaking transgender women, 60 and 67 years old, with more than 5 years of activism. According to the experience of these activists, participation was positive and, with the gender transition in old age, a form of liberation, overcoming fears and denunciation, having a favourable impact on the community (e.g., sharing life experience for empowering other generations). Despite their positive experience, gender transition also involved a networks restriction, and, in some situations, they considered their rights were not respect. Presenting themselves with pride allows them to overcome the stigmatization of others as a barrier to participate. Boomers are perceived as a prejudiced generation and, consequently, activists were more comfortable interacting with younger generations (more naturalization, less judgmental). When trying to be included in heteronormative and cisgender contexts that did not consider the specificity of their life trajectories as they age, transgender older adults perceived the invisibility of their realities conditioned their social participation.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".