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At the moment and internationally is that feeling that entitles you to go to a particular space, so a women's changing room, if you feel like a woman or a women's sports team, if you feel like a woman. and to interjectjust for a moment, cos this is really important. the uk has been considering changing the law to make much easier "self—identification" and also to open up some spaces which have not been opened up thus far to transgendered people. particularly, we're talking about transgendered women, to open the spaces up, whether it be havens, refuges from domestic abuse, whether it be women...

Just about words, but it's not just about words. what are these problems, these practical problems that you allude to? so the main target of the book i wrote was about the idea that your gender identity, which is supposed to be a feeling, it's not necessarily connected to surgery or hormones or presentation, even, it's your inner feeling of whether you're male, female or neither, and it may not correspond to your outward sex. the idea that's coming through policy makers in the uk at the moment and internationally is that feeling that entitles you to go to a particular space, so a women's chang...

That sense of betrayal seems more acute in this region, where people felt closer to russia before the war. the city has even changed its name now to be more ukrainian. one of the consequences of all of the years of conflict with russia is actually a far stronger sense of ukrainian national identity in this country. we've been invited to meet a band who've made a conscious decision to stop singing in russian, to focus only on ukrainian. that's quite a curious choice in a city like this, where actually russian is the main language. where, actually, russian is the main language. questions of fami...

We have been invited to meet a band who've made a conscious decision to stop singing in russian, to focus only on ukrainian. that's quite a curious choice in a city like this, where actually russian is the main language. questions of families, my bandmates also, its quite normal, but when we speak about the self—identification of a person who lives in ukraine and this person creates lyrics for songs, language, ukrainian language, is an instrument and a weapon at the same time. fighting for what? the right to be yourself and your own country. but that isn't a battle everyone's ready to fight....

That sense of betrayal seems more acute in this region, where people felt closer to russia before the war. the city has even changed its name now to be more ukrainian. one of the consequences of all of the years of conflict with russia is actually a far stronger sense of ukrainian national identity in this country. we�*ve been invited to meet a band who�*ve made a conscious decision to stop singing in russian, to focus only on ukrainian. that�*s quite a curious choice in a city like this, where, actually, russian is the main language. questions of families, my bandmates also, it�*s qui...