I have a number of female friends who serve across all three services, and others (male and female) who would fall into the BAME category.
The horror stories that I have heard of how they have been treated, the serious cultural bars they face, the astonishing misogony and sexist behaviour, the casual racism and the general sense that if you are not a straight white male, somehow you don't belong in the same way is deeply upsetting. Whether we like it or not there are very serious issues lying just beneath the surface around military culture that badly need to be addressed - you can complain about this being 'PC gone made' or you can accept that for many members of the forces, being treated in a way that isn't in line with what we loudly proclaim our V&S to be isn't appropriate and needs addressing.
Frankly many of the posts on this thread and elsewhere on this forum merely confirm that these are still live problems.