I bet they freeze real nice too

omg. I wanna see them when they’re done

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Trans people are just people. They deserve dignity & safety. You’re maintaining a perspective full of contradictions. Separate but equal has never led anywhere good. I used to feel similarly to you until I took the time to listen to trans people’s stories. I hope you have a change of heart one day.

Im engaging here because I can see your timeline and I feel like we have a lot of shared values. I am trying to tell you that you’re not protecting, you’re harming, with this line of thinking. You can’t “stand up” for one trans woman while enabling systems and policies that oppress her.

Can you share that evidence? Major medical orgs and research studies consistently show that trans-inclusive policies don't increase safety risks even a little. I just looked again and I could find ZERO credible examples of a trans woman preying on a cis women in a women only space.

That is a straw man argument. That’s like white people being “nervous” to share a pool with Black people. There is no evidence trans women make women’s only spaces any less safe. I understand you might not be very familiar with trans people. Take some time to listen to them. They are just people.

When someone advocates for policies that have been SHOWN to cause harm to a specific community, despite that community's feedback and contrary evidence from experts, it goes beyond just 'speaking out for a view.' It's choosing to ignore the experiences and safety of an entire group of humans.

demand it be held to a high standard and implemented correctly. Now it's just GONE, and they're using "DEI" as an excuse to do bonkers things like erase trans people from Stonewall, or delete photos of the Tuskegee airmen. I think it's a HUGE loss and America is less great bc of it. Ty again :)

Is it 100% perfect in all applications, definitely not -- esp. as you pointed out there may be places where they are completely missing the point and hiring based on quotas (which is illegal lol). But that's why we SHOULD fund it, and

It encourages critical thinking around what's really necessary to do the job, and helps employees identify where and why they might have biases. Even small ones, even "positive" ones. It encourages merit over networking and connections. Standardized interviews and performance measurement. etc.

of interview questions proactively to EVERY candidate so those w/ neurodivergence or learning differences don't have to out themselves and ask for accommodation, which can trigger biases in hiring managers too.

Thank you too!

It's really just very small actions that add up. It looks like training and education to help hiring managers, interviewers and recruiters learn about unconscious biases. It suggests removing names/genders from resumes when you're reviewing them, and providing written copies

Dismantling programs instead of improving them won't lead to true merit-based hiring. "Diversity is good but not like THAT" misses the point that conservatives are lying in bad faith about what DEI even is, just like "CRT".

That's not to say it never happens. Some companies may implement these practices poorly. But that's antithetical to DEI's actual goal ... hiring THE BEST PERSON regardless of background. "Hire at least X% of non white people" is exactly what DEI is saying we should NOT be doing.

In my professional experience w/ DEI training, HR always emphasized it was NEVER about quotas. It focused on widening our funnel to create accessibility and visibility to more qualified people. In my professional network, I've never heard recruiters mention quotas.