There were no trans Anglo-Saxons

Activist historians are continually discovering’ new examples of long-dead people who supposedly identified as trans.

The aim of this exercise is to pretend that trans identities are as old as the hills and that modern, batty ideas about gender have, somehow, withstood the test of time.

The Anglo-Saxons are the latest target.

According to their twisted logic, a woman was not a woman unless she sat at home doing needlework and tending to the hearth. Apparently, a woman buried with a sword must have at least secretly identified as a man. It is a sad, narrow view of both history and gender. This regressive rewriting of history has got to stop. Lauren Smith is a staff writer at spiked. Picture by: Getty. To enquire about republishing spiked’s content, a right to reply or to request a correction, please contact the managing editor, Viv Regan ..