It doesn't boggle me (saddens me, perhaps, but not boggles) that we're still at the "it doesn't matter" stage that we've actually been through with pretty much all minority-concepts: there has been a point where the major focus of trying to get any minority-individual into a position of authority was "but it doesn't MATTER that zie's [black/Jewish/a woman/a Protestant/a Catholic/whatever's oppressed in that area], all that matters is zie's competent at the job!"

In a culture where it's still acceptable on pretty much every social level to openly consider lgbtq people a threat or an infection, we're still very much at the level where the argument has to be "it doesn't MATTER, zie can do the JOB", because the argument "yeah, and that's the POINT" is still provoking wide-spread emotional reactions along the lines of "shoot it before it kills us."

There's all sorts of shit that's wrong with that; it's sad and it's scary. But to me it's not surprising. Not given where we still are.