Transpeople and Future archeology

[doradoo]

I don't know if this has been discussed here already, but what is the trans stance on how their remains would be classified in anthropological/archeological terms. As I understand it men and women are skeletally different, so how would say a transwoman be identifiable from their remains and how would they square that circle in terms of not being identified as the male they were?

Say in a future excavation of a graveyard where documentation needs to be made, would it be assumed that a mistake had been made, and the wrong person buried in a grave — would there then need to be investigations about who was where? I've clearly been watching too many crime shows but wondered what the trans stance on this would be.

Might need to look for the soul.

See, and that's how I personally peaked. As a materialist, I just basically think we are our bodies. Because that's quite literally what all the available evidence points to.

Now, evidently, our brains are part of our bodies, and they have the unfortunate habit of sometimes doing funny shit to us. Like the dementia cases described upthread, which are truly horrific and make me feel desperately sad for the people this concerns.

But, still, I'm a woman because every cell in my body comes with XX chromosomes. No other reason. I may be an engineer, a boss, a jeans afficionado, an aggressive closer of sales worth millions who runs around in Docs when left to my own devices. A computer nerd. All sorts of things considered traditionally masculine. The same is true for my fellow women. And still, we do it all in bodies that have one crucial thing in common.

Also, technically, I suppose not EVERY cell in my body is XX. Having been pregnant, I've obviously got gametes, which are X only. Not the point.

Technically a good chunk of the cells in my body belong to my bacterial overlords, but I think it's OK to say 'all my cells are XX'. It makes the point that our whole beings are sexed, not just our reproductive systems.