I guess it comes back to that Atlantic article; if your father dies before your transition, there is privilege in being the AMAB offspring of a duke.
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A normal situation worth focusing our intersectional analysis on
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Indeed. For as we know, the only two situations where gender matters are a.) inheritance of an entailed estate, and b.) sinking ship.
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There's a basic selectiveness in TERF analysis. Like, if we ignore the trans person's basic emotional state and actions and also only look at them before transition, it's kind of like a privilege. But why ignore those things, except that it gets you the conclusion you want?
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Like, your hypothetical duchess is not overall going to have a lot of fun times among the British aristocracy, before or after transition. And only meaningless hyperselectiveness lets you ignore that clear fact
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The British landed aristocracy, a group well known for being progressive and forward thinking
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Yeah, even the ridiculous hypothetical doesn't actually work!
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(ironically, and off topic here: Elizabeth II is also the formally styled as "the Duke of Normandy." Not the Duchess. So that's kinda fun)
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It's because England was strict on male (agnatic) primogeniture historically, with just like two exceptions in history (Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough, and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife), both of which were exceptions specially created by the monarch
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Yeah, and the French even more so; it may well be the application of Salic law here.
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Interestingly one of the most famous duchesses in her own right in history, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was French, although I think that may be because the Duchy of Aquitaine was created prior to the establishment of Salic law
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Hmm, yeah, I don't know, actually! It may be that Aquitaine, being in the south of France, did not operate under Salic law either.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Looking briefly; Aquitaine was at some points, a kingdom in its own right (though ruled by Frankish kings in Francia/West Francia) so that might be all the legality needed.
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