Hugo Greenhalg

DNA tests have shown that American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was almost certainly intersex, a documentary to be broadcast on Monday will reveal. Researchers for the documentary established that the disputed remains of the general known as the “father of the American Cavalry” were genuine, cementing the view that he was born with an intersex condition. Rumours have swirled for years over whether Pulaski, a Polish nobleman born in Warsaw in 1745, was born with both male and female sex characteristics. A forensic investigation conducted in 1996 on exhumed remains showed signs of a more oval-shaped pelvis and rounded […]