Do you have an insatiable desire to read about “alchemical hermaphrodites, genderfluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs, trans saints, sex workers, and genderqueer monks”? To contemplate “how these medieval texts speak to the historical, theoretical, and political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies”? In the coming semester, Boston University students will have the opportunity to do just that in a “Medieval Trans Studies” course, the College Fix reports.

It is quite obviously an attempt to impose modern transgender ideology onto a culture that had no recognition of it. It also recalls a familiar criticism of medieval scholasticism, which gave us the modern university: that scholastics spent all their time debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Evidence that such people devoted extensive time to this particular discussion is actually quite sparse, suggesting the possibility that it was a caricature invented by critics of Catholicism.

Now, proof of discussions that would embarrass medievals — falsely dressed up as honest examinations of their time — is on full display.