I'd prefer there were no questions whatsoever around gender or sexual orientation. What business is that of a business and why would I want a business to hold t

I'd prefer there were no questions whatsoever around gender or sexual orientation. What business is that of a business and why would I want a business to hold this type of information? I don't see these questions as ever having caused anything other than more strife and iniquity. I guess at some point the claim was that they are used to create visibility into whether there is an issue or not, but I'm also paranoid about this type of information getting collected just in case there's a new dictator around the corner who needs a convenient enemy. Yet I dislike the tone of the article despite agreeing with its core tenet. It's the part saying minorities made us do so. The only thing I have ever heard minorities call for was the option to answer "prefer not to answer" or "other" to these questions. The option that was chosen by the author? The questions have been around for a long time and it's not something "the minorities" created. Not to mention that the answers have certainly not been used in favour of the minorities for most of recent history.