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Elizabeth I will be transgender in ITV drama

She will? Why? Because women are too weak and inferior to have the top job?

Elizabeth I will be portrayed as transgender in a forthcoming ITV drama.

The Tudor queen, who never married and established England as a rising imperial power, will be shown as a biological man in the six-part series next year.

The independence of the “Virgin Queen”, who ruled from 1558 to 1603 and defeated the Spanish Armada, has given rise to improbable conspiracies that she was a man masquerading as a woman.

Claims of her being a trans woman will be a central focus of the new series, titled Majesty, in which the monarch will be played by a transgender woman, according to reports.

So, insult piled on injury. Hey don’t stop there. Do a series on Jane Austen, because obviously no woman is intelligent enough to write Emma.

In 2022, academics working for Shakespeare’s Globe in central London said she could have been non-binary, when people believe they are neither male nor female.

Elizabeth I was presented as such in an essay published by the theatre which referred to the female monarch with the gender-neutral they/them pronouns.

Feminist thinkers have raised concerns that casting doubts on the womanhood of prominent women because they defied gender norms and did supposedly “manly” things will effectively write them out of history.

That plus the fact that it amounts to shouting that women are too weak and brainless to accomplish anything.

James Strong, the director behind the production company, previously said the series would “re-imagine” history to make it “modern and relevant to today’s viewer”.

“The brilliant scripts are a director’s dream as we get to re-imagine and recreate an iconic piece of English history and tell a period story that looks stunning but also feels modern and relevant to today’s viewer,” he said.

Yeah bro, claiming women didn’t do those important difficult things because they’re too stupid is the best way to feel modern and relevant to today’s viewer.