Normalizing Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions, and Sex Characteristics at the Global Level, from a Canadian Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
By developing its first Feminist International Assistance policy, Canada has positioned itself as an international feminist and diverse SOGIESC rights leader. However, the scarcity of references to sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) has raised questions on how these concepts were included in such a policy. This case study's objective is to better understand how Canadian policies play a role in including and normalizing diverse SOGIESC at the global level. We used documentary research, observations, and interviews to respond to that question. An abductive analysis was conducted, integrating a socio-ecological approach with emerging themes from the data. All socio-ecological levels were mobilized by Canadian actions toward SOGIESC normalization. Public policies were informed by a human rights-based approach and inclusive language. Canadian norms toward SOGIESC rights were conveyed within international communities by building bridges, positioning Canada as a political broker, while organizational resources remained limited. Individuals and their interpersonal skills were central in creating allyship through firsthand experiences. The importance of transpartisanship and stronger coordination of soft power emerged as new and practical strategies responding to inclusion and normalization challenges. These strategies could represent important interactive spaces and leaders, in a context of rising conservative right-wing coalitions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 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) | 0.000 | 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".