Researchers compared ten years of medical examiner’s narratives to death certificates, and found they frequently did not match.
October 5, 2022
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A new study by public health officials in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties showed that common death investigation software is contributing to the problem of death certificates misgendering transgender and nonbinary decedents. Pictured, the Washington County Public Safety Building./Courtesy photo
The majority of transgender and nonbinary people who died in the Portland metro area between 2011 and 2021 were misgendered on their death certific
