I was running a large social agency years ago when our national leadership went bonkers on affirmative action and advised me that our staff was not nearly diverse enough. Well I was living in a mostly Anglo state in a mostly Anglo town and finding people of color, even Hispanics, to work was not that easy. Plus we were also supposed to hire veterans and the handicapped more.Wow, Truth, facts and honesty, not to mention competency. Dems throw all that out the window. It's all about inclusion and diversity. You get a blind black lesbian RTD Bus driver with Aubergers syndrome driving you home. Yeay.
My accounting officer quipped that what we needed to find was a black WAC with a bad leg. Such people were very hard to come by.
My HPER officer was a lesbian and excellent in her job and remains dear to me to this day. But she was never in anybody's face about it nor expected special pronouns or anything like that. Probably few even knew her sexual orientation any more than they questioned anybody else's sexual orientation. It was simply not an issue.
We continued to hire on merit and I'm pretty sure our staff represented the general makeup of our community.
I shudder to think what we would be told we needed to hire these days with in our faces transgendering, dozens of genders, inability to define what a woman is, etc. etc. etc.
It's crazy.