Good Post Mike!! I dont agree with you much, but this I do agree. I bounce back and forth from our place in Thailand and our place in the US. I've worked with some companies in the US that make anyone contracted with them take DEI classes as a compliance issue. The DEI classes we had to take were confusing and I had a hard time passing some of them. They made it seem like even telling a coworker she looked nice or that you liked what she was wearing could cause a problem. They claim the coworker might interpret it as a sexual advance or someone else might feel they were being treated differently because they didn’t receive the same compliment. So no compliments were allowed. I understand why companies want to prevent harassment, but some of these classes make ordinary workplace interaction seem much more complicated than it needs to be. I also wonder whether in some cases underlying mental-health problems, loneliness or a desire for acceptance may be involved. That doesn’t mean every transgender person has a mental illness or is looking for attention. People have different experiences and motivations. But I don’t think businesses should treat every question about gender identity as hatred or discourage reasonable discussion rather than to push employees into classes on how to deal with things. Myself I treat everyone the same. I don’t care if you’re gay, transgender, black, white or purple! I judge people by how they treat me / others, not by the group they belong to. Now, some of the furry behavior is difficult for me to understand, especially when people take it beyond costumes or entertainment and expect everyone else to participate in it, these people may have mental health issues or their parents have some type of issue to let their children do these things. Playing is one thing, but letting them go out in public and act like that is an issue.
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