A Roman emperor has been declared transgender by a UK museum. The North Hertfordshire Museum has said it will be 'sensitive' to the purported pronoun preferences of the third-century AD ruler Elagabalus. The emperor will be treated as a transgender woman and referred to as she. The museum consulted the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall and the LGBTQ+ wing of the trade union Unison on best practices for its displays, to ensure their displays, publicity, and talks are as up-to-date and inclusive as possible. Keith Hoskins, Liberal Democrat councilor and executive member for arts at the Lib Dem and Labor coalition-run North Herts Council, told the Telegraph: that the emperor most definitely preferred the she pronoun. The change came about based on an account by Cassius Dio, a Roman chronicler, who wrote that Elagabalus told one lover "Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady", and asked for female genitalia to be fashioned for him. But, the Telegraph added, some historians believe these accounts may simply have been a Roman attempt at character assassination. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, a Cambridge classics professor, told the Telegraph that the Romans didn't have the idea of 'trans' as a category as we have today. Rather, they used accusations of sexual behavior 'as a woman' as one of the worst insults against men. #Queer Up Gay Culture