This is real and the Egyptians did use the wheat and barley method for pregnancy testing. Surprisingly it’s not complete hokum because it did work for detecting pregnancy 70-85% of the time if not the specific gender

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/pee-pregnant-history-science-urine-based-pregnancy-tests/

According to you, a person thinking logically and operating in good faith. All an authoritarian needs now is the judge, who can be appointed by the authoritarian themselveswith little oversight, to say whatever they want to do is an official act. We have an irrefutable king again in other words