Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-45692830-20200526225849

Well let's be clear on what the current proposal is here. The current proposal is two categories, "non heterosexual" and "non cisgender". While LGBT+ people do at times reject labels (hence the usage of "queer" as a catchall), these categories are defined in terms of what they're not, namely, not the dominate paradigm for sexuality and gender. So even as someone rejects labels, the mere act of rejecting a label would force them into these categories. So your objection here just misunderstands the current proposal.

As for treating them differently than their straight counterparts, I'll note that's just the world we live in. Obviously we all long for a world in which that's no longer the case. But we don't live in that world yet. We live in a world where prejudice still exists, and it's important to prop up diversity where it exists.

Moffat's comments on color blind casting are illustrative here. He attempted to have open casting calls regardless of race earlier in his tenure and just got super white casts. So finally he got fed up with it and actually wrote a black companion and had people specifically only look for black actresses to fill the role. If we ignore the systemic issues that still exist, it just perpetuates them. We have to work to rectify them before we get to the place where we can treat everyone the same.