If you were to inquire from a radical gender theorist or trans advocate how you can know the sex or gender of a person, they would have only one answer for you. Ask them. The concept that only an individual can define their own gender or sex is the alpha and the omega of the movement. So it is strange to see claims being made that historical figures, who had no idea what transgenderism is, can be assigned gender identities that they did not choose for themselves.
The latest example of this paradoxical paradigm in practice is a production at London’s Globe Theater, co-founded by Shakespeare himself, of the play “I, Joan” about Catholic saint and French hero Joan of Arc. A non-binary actor was cast for the lead role and the Globe officially announced that in this production the character’s pronouns are They/Them. On its own this could just be viewed as a kind of non-traditional casting common in modern theater. But then the Globe went a little further.
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