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Misleading claim that pelvic bone 'reveals binary sex' shared in anti-LGBTQ posts

By A Mystery Man Writer

A misleading claim that archaeologists can purely determine the sex of a person from the pelvic bone in their remains and that their conclusion is always either male or female has been shared tens of thousand of times by social media users in different countries. However, experts say it is difficult to determine sex from the pelvic bone alone, and that these estimates are on a spectrum and not always binary.

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