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Image CreditNeil and Kathy Carey / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Be careful not to misgender Julius Caesar.
Was Julius Caesar male or female? Be careful not to assume, or you might offend the dead emperor.
These are the new rules being thrust upon academics, as chronicled by the conservative education-based publication The College Fix on Monday.
“Gender activists push to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female,’” the headline reads.
The paper outlines a movement in anthropology to adopt the left’s new orthodoxy on sex, by which it already dishes out retribution against those who refuse to play along.
“As soon as ancient human remains are excavated, archaeologists begin the work of determining a number of traits about the individual, including age, race and gender,” The College Fix reported. “But gender activists argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.”
A group called the “ Trans Doe Task Force ” has begun the process of exploring “ways in which current standards in forensic human identification do a disservice to people who do not clearly fit the gender binary.”
“We propose a gender-expansive approach to human identification by combing missing and unidentified databases looking for contextual clues such as decedents wearing clothing culturally coded to a gender other than their assigned sex,” reads the mission statement.In other words, occasional cross-dressing, which is common among children and adolescents today as it was hundreds of years ago, might be code for transgenderism. Thus a snapshot into the life of an ancient person for whom evidence suggests engagement in the practice must mean that individual was transgender and should be identified as such.That instant identification conforms with today’s knee-jerk approach, which is enshrined by “gender-affirming care,” leaving people’s questions about their own identity without scrutiny. Never mind that 70 percent of children today eventually […]
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