CZECH REPUBLIC – The skeleton of what researchers believe to be a transgender woman who lived 5,000 years ago has been discovered in a Prague suburb.
Though anatomically male, the skeleton was buried in rituals and traditions generally provided for females in the Copper Age culture of the area.
Men from the era were buried with weapons and their heads facing west, while women’s heads faced east and were buried with jugs, just as this male skeleton had been discovered.
Kamila Remisˇová, the head of the research team, said, “From history and ethnology, we know that when a culture had strict burial rules they never made mistakes with these sort of things.”
Archaeologist Katerˇina Semrádová told Czech Position, “We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a ‘transsexual’ or ‘third gender grave’ in the Czech Republic.”
