Military fails to provide proper kit for women.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj1jdgpzjlo

Servicewomen still failing to be properly kitted out, ffs.

"We are trying to address that women are not small men - they're shaped differently."

How do they not know this? Or do they not care?

(Bit like the "if men have had genital surgery they are women" argument. Men are the default and women are just some kind of inadequately-formed men).

I think the military are being failed in every way possible anyway.

Meanwhile:

'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been accused of failing female soldiers by refusing to clarify its transgender policies more than a year after the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/27/female-soldiers-failed-by-mod-over-trans-guidance-claim/

Hmm, does that include the cos playing women?
Nope, I think their male kit fits very well indeed.
Ditto body armour in the police.

Meanwhile the MOD are sponsoring specialist kit for Ukrainian women troops made by a company in Coventry.
Heard on Women's Hour today.

I know it's not the point, but I find it odd that British Army women have to wear skirts as part of their dress uniform. It seems like an incongruous insistence on appearing 'feminine'.

Irish Army men and women wear the same uniform- quite possibly with the same limitations as the British Army's, I don't know. But no skirts on parade.

I find skirts more convenient for everything except climbing ladders and my hobby. I never understand why trousers are more convenient - they don't match our anatomy.

Skirts are a pain in the arse! Legs are protected in trousers, better for almost all practical tasks, surely?

not just the army too, the fit tests for masks isn’t inclusive, dd has the one that fitted the best rather than one that actually fitted perfectly! On the flip side they special ordered uniform and/or paid for tailoring, the boots alone were £££ and took weeks because they had no size 3’s ready to wear in stores, the suppliers are to blame as well, it’s like they forgot women have smaller feet, are shorter etc