Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
In the modern world, the ideas that gender can only be male and female and that those identities are unalterably set at birth is only starting to change (and only among some sets). But a study of 3,000-year-old Persian graves suggests that the ancient Persian people had a much broader definition.
Though some modern people insist that specific sexual characteristics are attached to strict binary genders, Professor Megan Cifarelli argues that’s just not the case.
“The gender binary is culturally specific, in conflict with many, perhaps most, past civilizations.”
She’s conducted a special study of…
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