Talk:Elagabalus
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The gender identity of Elagabalus is a contentious topic and has been raised here before. The most radical claim — that Elagabalus claimed to be a woman and wanted confirming surgery — came from a historian who was also a public official, and answered to the same people who condemned Elagabalus's memory. This article follows the prevailing approach of scholarship by regarding those claims skeptically and thus uses masculine pronouns.
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Unprotection request
Could you unprotect Elagabalus’ page? In the Horrible Histories episode, Gruesome Guide to Growing Up, he was played by James McNicholas. So I need to add this to the page. 80.94.203.239 (talk) 09:48, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- You could copy your (secondary) sources here and ask another editor to add? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- That you don't provide a source tells me that page protection is working, and should remain. Marcus Markup (talk) 10:38, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
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There is an incorrect attribution to a primary source. The quote about him wanting a physician to incise a vagina is actually from Cassius Dio, 80.16.7 Burrowsrw (talk) 23:45, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've made the change in good-faith assuming that you are correct. Traumnovelle (talk) 02:56, 17 June 2025 (UTC)