It was one of those, ". . . okay, it's kinda cool to see someone just casually point out the goal I was aiming for all this time as an incidental waypoint. . ." moments.

I don't actually recall much about the female pharaohs other than that they existed; they tended to take the throne when there were no male heirs (and IIRC were often the ends of dynasties). I believe it was Hatshepsut who was the regent when her very young son was the nominal pharaoh and more or less usurped his position over time. (My history is very thin; one of the reasons I didn't fall into Kemeticism earlier is, I suspect, my world-spanning lack of interest in things like pharaonic history.)

They were presented in the full pharaonic regalia in all of the representations (including the strap-on beard). If comparisons to other African civilisations which have had female kings within recent times hold true, she probably kept a harem of pretty (possibly cross-dressing) boys.

It reminds me a bit of papersky's concept for a novel in which sex change is a trivial thing, and there is women's work and men's work very clearly. . . (I wonder if she's writing that. I think it was an Austen riff.)