A taxpayer-funded course exploring “Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology” at the University of York has been branded a “scam” by a Conservative MP. A student at the Russel Group University is receiving payment from the Arts Humanities Research Council of £18,622 to fund their studies. They presented a paper earlier this year titled Bones Don’t Care About Your Feelings: Challenging Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology in (Social) Media. In the presentation, the student asks: “What if I told you that when an archaeologist finds human remains, it is a fact that there are only two choices for …