My cousin has worked 20 years for an organization that has a division that specifically provides a certain service to the LBGT, and now more recently the rest of the alphabet soup. There was recently a new boss and a restructuring among the divisions. Cousin's division saw a bunch of new young queer folxx. As more restructuring was coming, as well as some retirements, these new people dominated every meeting, whether about hiring or not, about how they needed better representation within the division. They were pushing to remove the qualifications for certain jobs. Some of the jobs require a bachelor's degree or better, as well as certain relevant service experience.

Now, my cousin is a funny guy so I had to make him repeat this and swear he wasn't joking. One of these people demanded that they needed to seek out a dropout trans black disabled homeless woman for a certain position. In all seriousness. For a position that really, truly needed someone with certain qualifications other than "lived experience." Okay look, it was a non-client facing position dealing with sensitive files for fucks sake. It's not like you'd say to a trans person coming in for service, "hey, that form you're filling out will be handled by a transperson with dyslexia, doesn't that make you feel valid?"

I'm so surprised my cousin hasn't peaked. He loathes these people, but every once in awhile it seems like he's buying the TRA narrative.