> If gender is separate from sex, which seems to be the consensus these days, we can still identify a skeleton as "most likely" a male sex or female sex skeleto

> If gender is separate from sex, which seems to be the consensus these days, we can still identify a skeleton as "most likely" a male sex or female sex skeleton, Yes, you appear to agree with Palladino (who the article describes as a "gender activist") wrote at the linked-to thread, at https://web.archive.org/web/20220705135223/https://twitter.com/emmapalladino/status/1543800316352667648 https://web.archive.org/web/20220705135223/https://twitter.c... : ] While a bioarchaeologist might identify a set of remains as "probably female", it is understood that the gender of an individual is never necessarily the same as their sex, and that gender is a whole spectrum we've barely begun to unpack. > while the gender is essentially unknowable because gender seems to be a neurological characteristic not a physical one. Archeological evidence has more evidence than skeletons. The article quotes the Trans Doe Task Force (which concerns modern forensics rather than archeological) , which mentions how contextual clues like wearing clothing coded to another gender may be an indicator of that characteristic. > So what's the problem? The problem appears to be that the author of this piece is viewing the argument through a conservative gender-binary lens - the publisher is 'an American conservative news website ... designed to recruit "young conservatives for careers in the news media by placing college students in internships with right-leaning publications." says Wikipedia - and doesn't realize that none of the "gender activists" mentioned appear to want to "bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female’". At least, I couldn't find any support for that conclusion among the linked-to sources. I think we're being played by someone who wants to push buttons that activate conservative outrage. > We are talking about long dead skeletons here right? That doesn't make it insignificant. See long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man .