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her romance with a man (senenmut) is well documented. u also chose one of the most female looking representations of her to use here. there are images where she looks like a man, but in those sculptures you can look closely and see the beard shes wearing is fake. such a fail.
like, if youre going to try to pull these tricks at least use an image where shes actually depicted as a man. the lack of effort put into these charades lately has been disheartening. i want more intelligent nemeses 
egpytian stuff is oddly, more than the current normal level, saturated with these attempts to inject these ideas. a major museum recently did a whole exhibition on "gender transformation" in ancient egypt based on some obscure magical rituals.
subset of egyptian priests preparing a soul for the afterlife: we're using a special magical formula to allow the spirit of a female to temporarily function as a male spirit for the purpose of navigating one aspect of the afterlife
modern scholar: basically, egyptians were trans
modern scholar: basically, egyptians were trans
