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5,000-year-old 'Ivory Lady' upends what's known about sex and gender in prehistoric societies (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by CorvusNyx@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Thought the irony of transphobes saying when they discover trans people’s skeletons, they’ll only see us as our AGAB. Apparently figuring out a skeleton’s sex is not so cut and dry. Fascinating story regardless.

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[–] liminalDeluge@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole transphobic claim of being seen as our AGAB by future archeologists is especially ridiculous considering that modern ones are already saying things like this:

While the skeleton’s biological sex is not in dispute, Gowland cautioned that nothing is known about the Ivory Lady’s gender identity, and scholars shouldn’t impose modern gender norms onto past populations.

[–] ndr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the article was interesting, but I didn’t really get the point of what OP said. :/