First female soldier.

[Thecatsmum]

Only they've not had any surgery and have just started hormone treatment therefore they are a man!

How can they possibly be feted as the first female soldier?

The world truly has gone mad.

Love to know what the person having to write that really thinks about it.

That's a pretty dire response from the BBC.

that response says nothing!

"change of name and status" - what status was changed, what did it change from and what did it change to? On what grounds?

Mealy mouthed avoidance. The emperor is fully clothed, of course.

I was looking at the viva reeves DaDa programme, there is a clip below. He talks about the roots of Dada-ism - that the group of artists felt that things politically were so absurd at the time that they reacted by making absurd art/ doing absurd things. Though writing thoughtful sensible letters is one route, is there some action we can take in being absurd? Using these new laws/rules/guidance and subverting them, making a mockery of this situation? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4bMzhtZc7ZrkrxhsnhhgXs8/vic-reeves-goes-gaga-for-dada-the-original-art-rebels