How I Became the Man I Had Always Been: Narrating the Self in Recent English and German Life Writing by Trans Men
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The literary corpus of this article consists of twenty-first-century life writing by trans men in the United States, Canada and Germany. The books fall broadly into two categories in line with Ruth Pearce’s distinction between trans-as-condition and trans-as-movement. A series of close readings uses Christa Binswanger and Andrea Zimmermann’s notion of palimpsestic queer subjectivity and Paul B. Preciado’s somatheque (trans body-as-archive) to highlight the commonalities of and differences between these two groups. This article concludes that any interpretation of trans people’s narratives needs to account for the position that the transition narrative is assigned in the text. Some writers go into great detail to create a coherent and comprehensive lifespan account, others focus on key episodes and yet another group, more commonly on the side of trans-as-movement, avoid autobiographical depth in favour of a focus on the near present in its social and political contexts.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 it