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Admittedly I'm saying this as someone who points out all kinds of not-fixed-binary biological sexes/sexual roles/forms of hermaphroditism in animals as a refutation to the idea of a natural, biologically immutable, universal male/female binary, but sometimes I get the feeling that not only do people want nonbinary to be a single third gender, they really want it to be synonymous with intersex so they can cling to their idea of gender as biology even in the face of both gender and biology being too complicated for that.

It feels like trying to de-transify nonbinary identity.

So on that note, this article claiming archaeologists have found a nonbinary Scandinavian warrior's grave actually describes an intersex Scandinavian warrior's grave. It says says the individual was identified as female based on grave goods until genetic testing was conducted and revealed they had Klinefelter syndrome. The article never uses the term "intersex". Nothing in the article contradicts the possibility that the person in question was nonbinary, but their argument in favor is, with the most charitable reading I can muster, that a person in ancient Scandinavia with Klinefelter-typical characteristics, who was a respected warrior but also had grave goods typical of women's graves, might have identified in a way we would today call nonbinary. Mostly they seem to be arguing that having an XXY karyotype makes you nonbinary.

That's... not what nonbinary means. You can't do a genetic test for being nonbinary. Stop that.