Cass Chowdhury, B.A., B.A. (Hons)

My research examines the current practices in skeletal sex assessment in Canadian forensic anthropology, and challenges forensic death investigators to incorporate modern understandings of sex and gender into sex assessment work. I advocate for expansive and inclusive sex and gender documentation in death investigations, as a Charter-protected and federally stated human right, and inclusive medico-legal sex and gender assessment tools and training for forensic anthropologists, pathologists, coroners and police investigators, as best practices continue to develop.

I am interested in hearing from Canadian forensic death investigators, TDG Canadians and their families and communities, who are facing these challenges and would like to be part of finding solutions in the forensic context.