I will ask at my next fitness test in two years. Or maybe I will do the Rockport walk!

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The article is from the Daily Fail and though I am sure it may be used for cat litter I certainly wouldn't.
For one horrible and unforgivable moment I hovered my mouse over the link.
If this role does exist then many of the comments on here explain why it is necessary.

I'd beg to say that Nurse is not an overtly female title in the language sense, just that there is a strong association with females in the profession. Exactly the same problem that the majority of male dominated professions have had - say for instance "engineer" 50 years ago. That's more of an issue of changing perception, which is exactly why RAF recruiting ads have a higher proportion of female and ethnic minority servicefolk in, much to the horror of ppruners - because to a lot of those outside they perceive "Air Force Officer" as a white male job, in the same way that you've interpreted nurse as "female". Takes time to change this associations.

(Fwiw the Royal college of Nursing reports 10.8% of registered nurses as male).

On the plan to swindle the fitness test, sadly it won’t work. They are “Male” and “Female” standards.

So unless you are going to have your X and Y chromosomes fiddled with by some unknown science (you can’t currently change these), you are kind of stuck with what you have got!!! So the ‘sex change’ is really not a sex change at all - as you can have your male or female gonads removed, but you will still be technically male or female. If you choose to identify as a man or a woman, or whatever else, then you will still have to complete the fitness standard of the male or female - regardless of your gonad status!

So the term "gender" is now a social construct, who would have thought. Wouldn't referring to this desk bound MOD Chief as 'er indoors' be another social construct?

Maya Forstater lost her job for tweeting, quite correctly, that you can't change your biological sex no matter how much you want to identify as anything else - she has won her appeal though.

Rightly so. That quote above was from the ONS’s policy on the subject: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envir...der/2019-02-21

It would seem several international sporting bodies disagree, including the IOC and IWF. Laurel Hubbard? Rachel McKinnon?

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Yes, and I think it’s wrong. Give them a chromosome check to decide which race they can compete in :ok:

Or remove sex type from sport all together.

I agree - wasn’t defending it. I used to be a county class 100/200m runner in my early teens, and well remember watching the women’s 100m final in the Commonwealth games around 1982. I was about 15 and couldn’t believe that if I’d been in the race I might have finished 5th!

I guess we won't have nicknames/callsigns any longer?

Frosty: an RAN helicopter driver who was of Japanese ancestry, hence a 'Nip in the air'

Thrush: a general term for an irritating twit

And so on: add your favourites here :ok:

You may not like the Mail, but at least it is shining a light on mismanagement of public money and posts like this.

The comments here are merely people expressing a legitimate opinion. The fact you don't like what is being said is your problem, not ours.

If I were to push for promotion to a grade higher I'd be a Matron.

I can't see the NHS changing this title anytime soon

Can you honestly not see the irony of you describing exactly how offended you get, and in the next breath complaining about someone getting offended too much?

The question is how does all this "woke" business improve combat effectiveness of a military force....not who is offended or triggered or has their knickers in a wad over the use of some pronoun or rank while addressing others.

Is this latest surrender to Political Correctness actually in any way going to make the RAF or any other military force better at achieving its reason for being.....that being defending the Nation in combat with an aggressor enemy.

I see all of this as being a huge distraction from that mission....the training it requires to be prepared......assets that would otherwise be available.....and worst of all....it brings division among the Troops as they all deal with this.

Anything that dulls the point of the Spear is bad for the Force holding that Spear.

Col. Jessop's rants were spot on. It was his ordering an illegal "Code Red" and trying to cover it up that was wrong. Current trends and attempts at equlity legislation could unfortunately, sooner or later, lead to such a situation where command cannot take remedial steps about a dysfunctional subordinate without breaking some Hate Law or Equality legislation. We need to differentiate between correct discipline and bullying and prevent hurt feelings from creating a non-functioning fighting force.

The days of defending a nation against an aggressive force are long past us, at least for first world nations. Economic war is much more practicable and successful, and you don’t need an army to defend from that.

Can you honestly even conceive of Russia or China invading the UK? Wouldn’t happen in a million years. Get rid of most of the 3 services and bolster the coast guard slightly to protect from smugglers.

They said exactly the same in 1938. Even earlier, - Si vis pacem, para bellum ( Publis Flavius Vegetius Renatus - 4th or 5th century AD),
The only thing that changes are the idiots that say there is no threat of war,. when the biggest threat to war is the attitude that no threat exists.

There was no world economy in those eras as well. You can much easier and successfully conquer someone economically than militarily nowadays. With no need to occupy.

The Roman economy WAS the known world economy, but they still needed boots on the ground...