Captain Hannah Graf is the army’s most senior transgender soldier

There have been calls for a female James Bond and for a black Bond. Now Dominic West has called for the first transgender Bond.

The actor said Daniel Craig’s replacement in the spy franchise should be Hannah Graf, the highest-ranking transgender soldier in the British Army. She serves as a captain in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

“She’s a beautiful blonde girl who could be Bond,” West told The Sunday Times Magazine. “That’s actually a brilliant idea. They should have a transgender Bond because there are a lot of transgender people in the army.”

West met Graf after he appeared alongside her actor husband, Jake, a transgender man, in his latest film Colette.

When The Sunday Times told Graf, who has done a tour