I wonder if we're going to talk about trans and non-binary people when we're using physical characteristics of skeletons to assign a gender. #XmasLectures

@betandr I'm no expert, but my understanding is that skeletons are often ambiguous as to sex, which should certainly qualify as "nonbinary" sex identification. As for being trans or having nonbinary gender, that would require finding cultural indications of gender identity that might conflict with a positive identification of binary sex.

It'd be interesting to hear what the experts have to say about this, however.

@woozle I often wonder when I've been watching archeology programmes and they've found a burial which is a "male" but with "traditionally female" grave goods. I think in the 90s people were confused why this was.

@betandr 🤔

"Oh, we didn't know about that back then." - @Harena's mom :D