The Byzantine "monk" buried in chains near Jerusalem was a woman.Credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority
The Byzantine "monk" buried in chains near Jerusalem was a woman.Credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority
Something something MANGLED GENITALS
If detached, why the chains? Maybe they didn't want her to go to Heaven?
Dug up by biologists who can make this sort of determination.
WERE there any monks who were women? Was that considered to be sacrilege?
No, it’s not possible to tell by chromosomes, enamel protein or pelvic bones if someone is male or female:
Misleading claim that pelvic bone ‘reveals binary sex’ shared in anti-LGBTQ posts
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.336G8HA
The “expert” fact checkers said so.
Was her name Alice?
There have been since early times female anchorites and hermits, some associated with monasteries and some not. “Nuns” (not to be confused with “Sisters”) are basically female monks. It would be interesting to know if there was a convent of female monastics at this location and if this particular woman was a nun who had been “mis-gendered” by earlier researchers. There’s a lot of details not included in this story that could shed light on that.
indicated that the individual was a woman.
Assigned at death, I presume?
They should’ve just ax it it’s preferred pronouns.
I have two, myself: “The One who is My Intellectual Superior”, and, “The Chancellor of the Exchequer!”
Ends any argument very shortly after it has begun.
