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Beyond Binary Identification: Gender Affirming Care and its Utility in Forensic Anthropology
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size of the population and variation in gender-affirming can offer potential avenues to assist in forensic investigation. Through a literature review and a series of interviews, this thesis will look at some of the actions transgender individuals may choose to undergo to affirm their gender identity
and how these choices may be reflected in the skeletal record. It also recognizes current calls for action by the transgender community and members of the academic community urging forensic anthropologists to deepen their understanding of how individuals who have undergone transition might be
recognized postmortem. Working with transgender communities to expand our understanding of surgical intervention in the context of transgender medical care, forensic anthropologists might offer insights about a decedent’s history that conventional sex estimation from metric data may not be able to provide.