More in projecting modern cultural fashions onto the past and calling it scholarship:

It’s really telling that they’ve shopped a drag face onto the mediaeval art - an almost Freudian admission how tenuous the link is between modern queer culture and studies and the mediaeval subjects they purport to analyse https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988248/trans-and-genderqueer-subjects-in-medieval-hagiography">https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9...

“Trans” and “genderqueer” are exceptionally modern concepts. They’re not universal descriptors of innate categories or behaviours. They are instead cultural identities and political movement which can only be explained by their our own times

This mistake has been made before. The essential characteristics of the German nation or French nation were projected by 19th century historians onto pasts those terms did not describe, to advance ideas and interests alien to the older world they were applied to

It is the curse of every intellectual fad that it can never recognise its nature as fashion