LGBT Activists Push to Bar Anthropologists from Identifying Human Remains as ‘Male’ or ‘Female’

[mystery-ak]

LGBT Activists Push to Bar Anthropologists from Identifying Human Remains as ‘Male’ or ‘Female’

Alana Mastrangelo 18 Jul 2022

LGBT activists are pushing to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as “male” or “female,” arguing that scientists cannot know how an ancient individuals identified themselves.

Canadian Master’s degree candidate Emma Palladino took to Twitter earlier this month to point out that transgender individuals “can’t escape” their sex, not because it’s physically impossible to change one’s sex, but because archaeologists who find their bones one day “will assign you the same gender as you had at birth.”

“My trans+non-binary friends: You might know the argument that the archaeologists who find your bones one day will assign you the same gender as you had at birth, so regardless of whether you transition, you can’t escape your assigned sex,” Palladino wrote in a tweet, which has since garnered over 10,000 retweets, and more than 59,000 likes.

https://twitter.com/EmmaPalladino/status/1543800316352667648

In a follow-up tweet, Palladino said, “gender + queer archaeologists and scholars have been working for decades to unpack assumptions that archaeologists make about gender and identity, both today and in the past.”

“No field is perfect, and there’s absolutely more work to be done, but by and large, archaeologists are acutely aware of how culturally and spatially relative the concepts of sex, gender, and identity are,” she added.

Palladino, who believes that assigning biological sex to ancient human remains is “bullshit,” added that “labeling remains ‘male’ or ‘female’ is rarely the end goal of any excavation, anyway.”

“The ‘bioarchaeology of the individual’ is what we aim for, factoring in absolutely everything we discover about a person into a nuanced and open-ended biography of their life,” she argued.

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[Wingnut]

Bones don't lie.

[SZonian]

I find her POV to be "bullshit" as well...makes us even then. 

I seriously doubt archaeologists are going to be digging up coffins/graves...so who G.A.S.?

What a bunch of insane nonsense.

[Kamaji]

[DefiantMassRINO]

I thought people went to Sweden, Brazil, and South Korea to get operations to escape their sex.

How about buoys and gulls, like you see on restroom doors in nautically themed establishments?

[mountaineer]

... so regardless of whether you transition, you can’t escape your assigned sex ...

Oops, an accidental acknowledgment of the truth. You is what you is.

[Cyber Liberty]

Next up, banning the laws of physics, like gravity.

[berdie]

I am fairly certain that we have a very large segment of society that has way, way too much time on their hands.

[roamer_1]

I am fairly certain that we have a very large segment of society that has way, way too much time on their hands.

A few months on a farm would clear most of this nonsense right up.

[DefiantMassRINO]

When you thinl about it, why don't the limousine liberal moonbats just pass a law against Global Climate Change so we can go back to increasing domestic energy production?

Why criminalize carbon-dioxide and methane when Global Climate Change is what needs to be banned?  I'm sure the forces of Nature and God will glaldly comply with such a law.

[240B]

I am fairly certain that we have a very large segment of society that has way, way too much time on their hands.

That's what most of the Liberal agenda is about. It is intended to make useless bored wealthy White Liberals feel like they are 'making a difference'. The entire American Liberal agenda is a menu of First World rich White American issues. Nobody else has the time or the willingness to worry about all of their trivial crap. When you are worried about taking care of your family, and wondering where your next meal will come from, "pronouns" have no relevance. All the crap Liberals worry about is only relevant to rich White trust-fund gender-studies majors with too much time on their hands. Lately, they seem to be trying to erase women, and the very idea of womanhood, from current society and from history.

BTW: Once the anthropologists discover another female warrior queen, these so called 'activists' will talk about nothing else forever. See! Women were powerful back then!

[PeteS in CA]

Anthropology used to be about how people groups lived, their cultures, and groups' mutually influencing interactions. So if gender and ancestry are not part of analyzing human remains and surrounding information, that kind of ignores division of labor and various cultural roles and whether a cultural innovation was indigenous or due to interaction with another people group (and what the nature of that interaction was).