> Why do you believe this matters to the discussion? It matters because we can't just go around making laws based on whatever we feel like. Laws need to be abo

> Why do you believe this matters to the discussion? It matters because we can't just go around making laws based on whatever we feel like. Laws need to be about equity and need to be supported by evidence. Otherwise we can make a law saying that left-handed people are not allowed to use public washrooms, because they might not be able to use the facilities properly and make a mess. > Some may say the same about gender identity ... lack of scientific understanding has not prevented it from being a protected class. Some may say that. Some also say that vaccines are just a money-making scheme by pharma companies, or a potential cause of autism. But the people who actually studied it–i.e. doctors–don't. The American Medical Association is committed to informing policymakers of their current science-based understanding of gender as a spectrum: https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gender%20and%20sex?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-D-295.312.xml https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gender... > It’s juvenile that you seem to think... The factors that you associate with introversion and correlate with suffering in open office plans haven't even been scientifically established. In fact, scientifically there is doubt that the factors that people normally associate with introversion are actually about introversion. Given this lack of evidence, I don't know how you can make such a strong claim that introverts are discriminated against in offices, especially in a thread about already-established discriminatory practices. But if you feel so strongly about it, absolutely no one is stopping you from writing up a post and submitting it to HN. > I’m not interested in the legal process that led to this, rather the entirely separate sociological and philosophical parts The legal process used the sociological and philosophical factors to arrive at the discrimination judgments. Law doesn't just appear out of thin air–it's based on human factors. That's why I pointed you to those sources in the first place. They cover all that. If you're really interested, please go ahead and read them.