When the human race comes to the understanding that we are all just people and as such all different individuals and accept that these differences do not matter, there will be hope.
That leads to equal treatment, though; not to special treatment to "underprivileged groups", which is what this is all about.
Humankind just needs to stretch the morals where it comes to the sexually and gender or what have you different within the limits of some good sense.
Humankind needs a lot of stuff, that's true; but morals cannot be dictated. Just like language, they evolve dynamically.
Really, it is more about forced speech and "reverse" discrimination; about requiring individuals to treat other individuals
differently depending on their group membership.
(Here goes my speech for those who are afraid they don't "fit" because they are "different".)
In here and in real life, I'm very happy to interact with
you (whoever you are reading this post), and will not "judge" you in any way except how you interact with myself and others: I will treat you like you treat me, because that is natural to humans, and tends to yield the best results. And while I do not have any proof or actual evidence, I do claim that here on EEVblog, and in general in any technical, engineering, or science field where people are interested and motivated, everyone, regardless of their sexual or bodily characteristics, is welcome.
As such, I do claim that science and engineering fields in general are welcoming to
anyone, regardless of their sexual or bodily characteristics.
I certainly have happily worked with all kinds of different people, and their exact "differentness" was just the spice on top, not something that defined them in any way.
Yeah, idiots do exist and occur everywhere, and I too have been discriminated against pretty damn badly ("You get no budget just because you're my son's age and he's completely useless –– even though you have already shown your reliability and capabilities in practice. Instead, you will need to ask me written permission for every purchase. Since you do maintain a couple of computer classrooms and some servers with lots of consumables, try to ask them at most once every two weeks, because I don't want to be reviewing such inconsequential paperwork all the time. No, you cannot have any stock replacements either; that would be wasteful.").
The world is imperfect, but don't let it be defined by the assholes.
Thing is, if someone here were to describe themselves as say a hermaphrodite, that too will be treated more like a technical thing than a personal thing. In other words, they might get technical questions regarding actual biological plumbing, and not social questions like "how do you feel about
X", "what is your preference regarding
Y". But that is because people who are drawn to science and engineering tend to be more thing-oriented than people-oriented; something that is well known in psychology, and is observed in other primates as well. (In experiments, some young monkeys prefer toy cars, and others prefer dolls; very few play with both kinds of toys equally.) Do not mistake that for coldness or rejection; this is just how many engineers and scientists are, really think and even emote. It is their way of expressing interest and support. As humans, we do not get to tell others how they need/must/should express their interest and support; we just have to deal with it the best we can.
Demanding
others to change because
we feel the way they express their interest and support is insufficient, is not going to work.