#elegabalus

Short version: holy shit CK3 said trans rights.

Long version: Elagabalus (aka Heliogabalus) was emperor of Rome from 218 - 222 AD. She was assigned male at birth, but wore women’s clothes, preferred being addressed as a woman, and offered fortunes to any physician that could perform sexual reassignment surgery.

(Historians are generally wary about saying some historical figure was trans or queer, and for good reason. Historiography is complicated, and historical records are often very biased — basically every Roman emperor has been accused of being an effeminate buttslut by their detractors. However, multiple accounts of Elegabalus’s reign from different perspectives share these details. In this case, it’s a very safe bet)

So, in the Crusader Kings 3 screenshot, Elegabalus is officially Girl. Now, the earliest start date in CK3 is 876 AD, which you might notice is a long time after 222 AD. The reason Elegabalus is even in here is because there are historical records for certain titles and families. So while the CK3 devs were filling out all the odds and ends for a little feature that most players won’t ever notice, they went “you know what? We’re saying it: Elegabalus was a trans girl.” And that makes me happy.

Elagabalus

* Antioch, 218-222 CE

* silver

* obverse: "ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG" 

* reverse: "SANCT DEO SOLI // ELAGABAL" . A quadriga and the sacred Stone of Baal of Emessa.

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=180592

She's remembered as Elegabalus and literally all of the histories forever refer to her as a man because she was amab but she literally offered enormous sums of money to anyone who could perform gender confirmation surgery on her IN THE THIRD CENTURY BCE