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Revolutionary War Hero Casimir Pulaski Forensically Confirmed To Be Intersex

Revolutionary War Hero Casimir Pulaski Forensically Confirmed To Be Intersex

April 19, 2023 By Cade's Team Leave a Comment

While there are people out there who are shouting that biological sex is a binary (female/male), medically and scientifically speaking, it’s not true. Throughout all of history, intersex people have existed—and they always will.

In one of the more interesting—and famous—examples of this, the skeletal remains of the renowned Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski have been identified as intersex.

If you don’t know who Casimir Pulaski is, he was a Revolutionary War hero who gained fame when he saved George Washington’s life and became a general in the Continental Army.

While Casimir died in 1779, his skeletal remains were analyzed a few years ago by forensic scientists and determined to be “female”. At first, the researchers though this couldn’t be possible, but DNA tested from a material relative positively ID’d the skeletal remains as belonging to Pulaski.

As more specialists joined the investigation—including a medical examiner, a genealogist, forensic anthropologist, historian, and others—it became clear that Pulaski was intersex.

While Pulaski’s skeletal remains were biologically female, the general also had traits that caused him to live as male during his lifetime, including a little bit of facial hair, male pattern baldness, and some being baptized as male—so he had genitals that at least somewhat resembled male genitalia.

Given the evidence, it appears likely that he had an intersex condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, also called CAH.

@cadehildreth Did you know the Revolutionary War Hero, Casimir Pulaski, was #intersex? ♬ original sound – Cade Hildreth (they/them)

To sum it up, the outcome of the Revolutionary War – and the life George Washington himself, depended on the contributions of an intersex general.

While intersex and trans have not been well represented in the history of the United States, they always have and always will exist.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times
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Cade Hildreth is an LGBTQ+ entrepreneur, real estate investor, and former USA Rugby Player. Cade has founded 7-figure businesses, scaled websites to millions of views, acquired a portfolio of income-producing residential and commercial real estate assets, and played rugby worldwide.

As a world-class athlete, Cade has represented the USA Rugby Team, trained extensively at the Olympic Training Center, and played with elite squads from across New Zealand and Australia.

Often compared to Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi, Cade teaches millions to expand financially, while living an authentic and adventurous life.

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