Casimir Pulaski was intersex, new reports say. See here and here.
Monday, April 8, 2019
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I'm happy to post dissenting comments that are supported with facts. The above-linked articles do support their assertion with facts from the exhumation of Pulaski's corpse, and DNA analysis.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC article to which you link has this title: "Casimir Pulaski may have been woman or intersex, study says". Notice MAY HAVE. They do not sound convinced themselves.
ReplyDeleteI took anthropology, and a gracile female-looking skeleton with a wide hip can belong to a 100% male.
Years ago, we used to see all kinds of news stories about such-and-such a historical figure being possibly gay, and now we are seeing the same about being possibly transgender.
"I took anthropology"
ReplyDeleteOne course does not qualify anyone to comment authoritatively on a skeleton.
The Polonia Center recently made this statement about the conjectural and ideology-driven claim that Pulaski was intersex:
ReplyDeletehttp://poloniacenter.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/PolEvDC7/20190416222903/
How do you know that the report was ideology driven? What I read was based on scientific analysis of a skeleton. That's science, not ideology.
DeleteThe report plainly states that that the skeleton "may have" been female. That's ideology, not science.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
DeleteConjecture is not fact.
ReplyDeleteYou changed the subject.
DeleteNo I didn't.
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