Researchers claim war hero Casimir Pulaski was biologically female

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Scientific researchers are arguing that examination of skeletal remains and DNA testing has found that a Revolutionary war hero dubbed 'the father of the American cavalry' was in fact biologically female.

Researchers from Georgia Southern University say they made the discovery about General Casimir Pulaski after years of research examining the general's remains. 

Their claims are laid out in a new documentary - The General Was Female? - on the Smithsonian Channel's America's Hidden Stories series, which airs next week. 

The documentary suggests that Pulaski had an intersex condition known as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. 

The condition results in genetic females producing excessive amounts of male steroid hormones that can lead to abnormal sexual development and make genitals appear more masculine.

'That's pretty much the only way to explain the combination of features that we see,' Virginia Hutton Estabrook of Georgia Southern University told the Chicago Tribune. 

In addition to the female-looking pelvis, researchers say the skeletal remains also had a more female facial structure and jaw.