True! It’s one of the reasons most social sciences avoid wherever possible applying their own cultural lens to history, other cultures, etc. Otherwise you get interpretations that only serve to reinforce modern hegemonies.

As for the trans comment, I thought it amusing having seen someone recently make a comment on our skeletons in thousands of years, and here are scientists accidentally misgendering a skeleton. It’s one of those things that shows gendered ways of thinking, both of the individual and the socially constructed variety should be considered in the process of investigations like this. And it’s a good opportunity to reevaluate those same conceptions of gender and recognize how different they can be.