• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    There’s an enduring question as to how reliable the sources are as to Elagabalus’s wishes. As such the question of whether Elagabalus was trans, or nonbinary, remains. I would regard only referring to Elagabalus as a man as inappropriate.

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      We don’t have to make her fit into a contemporary gender model to respect her clearly stated wishes.

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        to respect her clearly stated wishes.

        There’s an enduring question as to how reliable the sources are as to Elagabalus’s wishes.