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-Great Cultural Revolution
Museum Claims Roman Emperor Was Transgender, 'She/Her' Pronouns Used for Display
2023-11-24
[BREITBART] A left-wing-run museum in England has pronounced that an ancient Roman Emperor from the third century was transgender and will be referred to by female pronouns to be more "inclusive".

The North Hertfordshire Museum, run by the local council which is presently in the hands of a Liberal Democrat-Labour Party coalition, has determined that Roman Emperor Elagabalus, born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, was transgender.
Latin has male and female gender endings. If he was female, he would have been Elagabala.
Based on dubious historical sources, the council determined that a display featuring a silver denarius coin produced during his reign would now refer to Elagabalus as "she" and for the coin to be used in other LGBT-themed displays, The Telegraph reported.
Gibbon describes Elagabalus more as a homosexual, not as "trans," though he was into cross-dressing.
The decision to label the Roman ruler as trans by the woke council, which consults with the controversial LGBT charity Stonewall and the LGBT wing of the Unison trade union, was made in light of historical accounts from Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, who claimed that Elagabalus had allegedly told a lover to "call me not lord, for I am a lady".

Dio also claimed that the young emperor, who was assassinated at the age of 18 in 222 AD, had been referred to as "wife, mistress and queen" and had even asked for mock female genitalia to be created for him.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
 this account has been widely questioned, given that Dio was an ally of Elagabalus’ successor as emperor, Severus Alexander and therefore had a vested interest in discrediting the reputation of the slain ruler as a means of legitimising the rule of Severus.

Cambridge Classics Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill said: "The Romans didn’t have our idea of ’trans’ as a category, but they used accusations of sexual behaviour ’as a woman’ as one of the worst insults against men.

He went on to note that because Elagabalus was of Syrian heritage and not of Roman stock, there was likely "racial prejudice going on there too" in the attempts to tarnish his reputation.

Posted by:Fred

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Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-24 07:35  

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Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-24 07:29  

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Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-24 07:05  

#3  What'sm next - they're going to claim that Socrates was gay & pedophile?😂
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-24 07:03  

#2  As it declined and embraced immorality, the Roman Empire also assisted in the Crucifixion of Jesus,
& the Murder of 1000's of Christians in their coliseums.

FACT
Many of the reasons why Rome Fell are now being played out by the US Federal Gov as we speak.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-11-24 06:48  

#1  Remember this the next time some soy zombies glue themselves to a painting. The museums are in on it- it's all a scam. Another institution colonized by the Left.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-11-24 04:55  

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