Those who champion the gender agenda look for historical confirmations of their views, on the smallest sample of evidence, even while viewing history as a social construction. The claim has been made by the woke academic establishment that a 1,000 year-old grave in Finland, basically at the end of the Viking era, was that of a non-binary person. There were in the grave what they interpret to be, projecting cultural bias, “female” clothing and jewels, but also symbols of masculinity, including a sword. There was a DNA analysis conducted, which was admitted to be based upon limited samples, and thus open to error, allegedly showing that the individual had Klinefelter syndrome. This involves a male having an extra X chromosome, thus being XXY. Such individuals, while male, have small penises and are usually infertile. Some males do not even realise that they have this syndrome, so there is no “typical” “gay’ behaviour necessarily.
This is an example of modern researchers, biased with contemporary gender agenda ideologies, reading back into time and planting their biases upon past data. There is nothing that can be inferred about how society regarded this individual. What they are trying to cook up is that this a gay male dressed in female clothing, but it is cultural prejudice to suppose that the clothing and small amount of jewels are “female,” or that a sword is exclusively male. It would be like supposing that a raincoat from the 1940s discovered 1,000 years later by Martian archaeologists going though the ruins of the Earth, indicated the transgenderism of today, when it simply had some unisex attributes, all culturally relative. Or, that past Scottish kilts indicated transgenderism, when it is nothing of the sort, and I am sure William Wallace would show offence. Don’t offend Bill. Kilt he may wear, but his sword is long and broad.