'It's a woman. It's not Pulaski.': New documentary argues Revolutionary War hero was intersex

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-casimir-pulaski-intersex-040319-story.html

When the skeleton believed to belong to the Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was first examined by modern scientists in the late 1990s, the results were disappointing.

“You’ll just have to shoot me,” a forensic anthropologist told the head of the scientific team, according to a new Smithsonian Channel documentary.

“It’s a woman. It’s not Pulaski.”

The team soon realized there were at least three possible explanations for the unusual finding: The bones they’d extracted from a well-known monument in Savannah, Ga., may have belonged to someone other than Pulaski. But it was also possible that Pulaski was a biological woman who lived as a man. And it was possible that Pulaski was one of the estimated 1 in 1,500 people who are born intersex, or with bodies that don’t fit neatly into the standard definitions of male and female.

[LiberalFighter]

1. What are the standard definitions of male and female?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. They vary!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. The headline, while a grabber, isn't necessarily helpful to a wider understanding of gender and

intersex, I don't think.

The body is Pulaski. The body had female biological markers, including XX chromosomes. But Pulaski wasn't a woman; he was a man.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Afternoon kick.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Early evening kick.

[smirkymonkey]

6. K&R

Interesting article. Thanks for posting!

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Interesting. nt