[eesmith]

How is it obvious? What was the surgery? Was there something about the operation which made it complicated?

LOL! As if earlier sociology and anthropology didn't fit non Western European cultural artifacts into a pseudo-history to reinforce 19th century Western European paradigms of gender. ("Berdache", cough, cough.)

And you somehow think they must have been correct? As if muxe, faʻafafine, māhū, the five genders of the Bugis people, etc. listed in the Wikipedia page are all recent/post-war inventions?

Your evidence that binary-only gender conforming to birth-assigned gender being 20K years old is, what precisely?

Just because President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says there are no homosexuals in Iran, doesn't mean he's right.

And the evidence I looked into is strongly counter to your expressed personal viewpoints.

[easytiger]

> How is it obvious? What was the surgery? Was there something about the operation which made it complicated?

I stated it was a day patient procedure.

It tells tales, the very limited weave of retrofitted appropriation of historical cultures via misinterpretation and dubious applied inferences, to feign a history that you have no relationship with.

Worse than the falsity, I believe you know it. Any well documented society for millennia has no hint of anything remotely to your thinking.