Because it&#x27;s a well-known factor for discrimination, to the point of limiting people&#x27;s opportunities to perform in the first place. Until there&#x27;s rough gender parity that resembles the distribution of gender in the general population fairly closely, you&#x27;re likely to see significant structural inequalities that hinder open participation in the first place.<p>Myself, I view this as a big problem and think it needs to b researched and actively mitigated. I&#x27;m a man, but I score much more like a woman on transgender-related psychological scales despite not taking hormones or engaging in SRS. When I play online videogames I sometimes identify as female (based largely on whim) and I can&#x27;t help noticing that my female avatars have to put up with an exponentially larger amount of random bullshit from other players. I&#x27;m not cool with this, but neither do I want to live in a world where people feel the need to obscure or neutralize their gender, since that&#x27;s a fairly fundamental part of most people&#x27;s identity.