Female monarchs and questions of gendered privilege

Somehow or other I ended up reading a lot of gendery discussion on Twitter tonight. One very interesting find is a working paper (which is to say, a baby study, not yet peer-reviewed) to the effect that over several centuries in Europe, reigning queens fought 25% more wars than kings, perhaps because married queens delegated more work to their husbands and thus were able to devote more of their own attention to warfare. Teamwork makes the dream of conquest work, I guess!

I also skimmed a thread arguing that trans men don't have male privilege really, and I have... complicated and frustrated feelings about that. So between discussion of transmisogyny and of transphobia more generally and the fact that I'm going to touch on some broader LGBQ stuff I don't necessarily understand as well as I'd like to, let's put the rest of this post behind ( a cut. )