The trope about transgender people's bones

I'd really like it if you'd read "Our Bones Help Us Live," a 7-minute read in "The Identity Current" on Medium.

I was talking about this:

So:

I often see transphobes say "anthropologists will say your skeleton is the other sex even if you're trans, owned"

they just assumed a viking skeleton was male from 1878 until they DNA tested it in 2017 because it was buried with a sword, an axe, and a spear

— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) April 23, 2022

😊Trans person : ...and that's why I support reforming this legislation that directly affects my life!

🤔 Random creeps on the internet : But what about the BONES?!? If someone dug up your BONES in ONE THOUSAND YEARS, would they say they were -boy- bones or ~girl~ bones?!?!?!?

— Alex - Fold Up Toy Designer✂️📦 (@FoldUpToys) October 16, 2022

6) Why would anyone living now care about what some archeologists a thousand years from now think about their bones?

Would YOU change YOUR life because of some hypothetical future scholar might think? Why?

— RB Lemberg (@RB_Lemberg) October 13, 2022

"your skeleton will always be male" okay so what. Then I'm a lady with a skeleton dude inside of me. I'm 100% comfortable with that idea

— Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter 🐀 (@EveHarmsWrites) October 12, 2022

Clive Barker: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the mummy
Barker: but i a got twist for ya
Barker: what if this time
Barker: the mummy
Barker: was
Barker: tra
Dan Simmons: THATS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD
Barker: ns

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

Simmons: how you gonna know if a mummy is trans?!?! archeologists would just LOOK at the mummy's pelvis and KNOW the mummy's BIOLOGICAL SEX
Barker: uh no
Barker: it would be obvious
Barker: this mummy wears a choker
Barker: probably with a big ol' scarab on it or something

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

Barker: of course ancient egypt considered cats sacred, so naturally my trans mummy wears cat ears
King: right, right
Barker: and post orchiectomy she carries around her balls in a canopic jar
King: sure sounds legit
Simmons: I AM
Simmons: SO MAD ABOUT THIS

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

"'Buhhhh a thousand years from now archaeologists will know your skeleton is MALE'
WRONG, they will be fighting for their lives against my tomb's elaborate traps in the heart of my cursed necropolis"
— Gretchen Felker-Martin on Bluesky

Yup, because there's nothing more to human society, culture, and identity than sexual reproduction. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/YrLxNKmmD9

— T. Seifman (@toranosukev) January 26, 2023

This whole thought experiment is so dark.

— A. D. McCormick (@a_d_mccormick) January 26, 2023

I'm still stuck on the kidnapper dumping a couple hundred people on two separate islands with no birth control or cell phones and sailing off with an empty boat...to run a hundred-year experiment, with a control, to find out who has a uterus?

Also ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/cV73TpMz8Q

— Tucker Lieberman (@tuckerlieberman) January 27, 2023

"Nuestros cuerpos son llaves que abren sólo ciertas puertas. De hecho nuestros cuerpos hablan y nuestros huesos son nuestro último testimonio. ¿Nos traicionarán nuestros huesos?"
Cristina Rivera Garza, “Nota de la autora” (2017) to La Cresta de Ilión (The Iliac Crest), originally published 2002

Let’s talk about sexual dimorphism in humans.

This is something that comes up a lot in Jordan Peterson & incel circles. And it sets you up for terrible answers, because it fundamentally misunderstands the question.

A better question: why are human males and females so SIMILAR. pic.twitter.com/Y1qRumBufL

— ern. (@ErinEARoss) February 18, 2023

not gonna get in a quote tweet fight with transphobes but archaeologists are constantly finding skeletons of whatever alleged sex with the opposite gender role’s expected burial items and going “huh. neat”

— chin up, soldier (@tronsgender) March 5, 2023

C.J. continued:

Trans rights are not an "is" claim but an "ought."

Not "I can make my birth sex unrecognizable" but "I should not be forced to act in any particular way because of my birth sex."

which kinda just sounds like Feminism 101 For Small Babies and: that's because it is

and explicitly including pronouns and medical interventions and such among the freedoms not to be constrained by sex shouldn't actually be all that revolutionary

"trans rights are human rights" not as empty slogan but as "trans rights are the natural consequence of every human's right to self-determination"

I do not deny the angle of my pelvic bones; I deny that I'm required to base any major life decisions on it.

another article on this topic

If you'd like information on the pelvic bones of castrated men, see:
Kathryn Reusch, “Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration.” Castration and Culture In the Middle Ages, ed. Larissa Tracy. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013.

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