"Until recently, the consensus was that when medieval historians claimed it was unnatural for a woman to be brave or ambitious, the right response was: How sad

"Until recently, the consensus was that when medieval historians claimed it was unnatural for a woman to be brave or ambitious, the right response was: How sad that the past was so imprisoned by stereotypes. Not: Hmm, well, maybe they weren’t women." Instead of lettinmg transexualism be a liberation from gender roles, we seem to be trying to force it into a third gender role, and then to squish other genders into that one if they don't conform to our binary expectations.