Revolutionary War Hero Might Have Been A Woman or Intersex

Pulaski proved his — or her, or their — mettle in 1777 by preventing advancing British troops from capturing Washington at the Battle of Brandywine.

Seems pretty problematic to posthumously redefine someone’s gender and assign them new pronouns. Regardless of what any skeletal analysis may indicate and the fact that he had male genitals, it’s clear this individual understood themself to be a man—isn’t that what we’re saying matters at this point, how you feel?

Just because the way we understand gender is more “woke” now doesn’t mean that the identities we recognize have always existed. People who lived hundreds of years ago can’t be categorized by today’s standards, because its not an accurate representation of how they would have understood themselves.