…. she was trans. After one researcher comments that “he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transvestite. What we see here does not add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms” because of the position she was buried in and because of the implements she was buried with.
Why must otherwise intelligent, educated people conflate sexual orientation and corss-gender identity? At least one of the other researchers seems to know what’s what:
Another member of the archaeological team, Katerina Semradova, said that colleagues had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.
She added that Siberian shamans, or witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories appropriate to their elevated position in society.
‘This later discovery was neither of those. We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic.’
That said, we don’t know that she wasn’t gay, either: maybe some of the things she was buried with were given to her by her wife.
All kidding aside: ze could have also been part of a third gender tradition, male-identified but fulfilled a woman’ role.
Or ze might have been trans in a period before people used hormones, identity documents and surgeries to transition. That is, we seem to know a little something about this person’s own gender role, but not necessarily about hir gender identity, and we absolutely don’t know who this person desired, partnered with, had sex with, or loved, while ze was alive. Therefore: we really don’t know anything about hir sexual orientation whatsoever (or rather, no indicators of such were mentioned in the article).
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374060/Gay-caveman-5-000-year-old-male-skeleton-outed-way-buried.html#ixzz1InnbGDRT