Because it's a well-known factor for discrimination, to the point of limiting people's opportunities to perform in the first place. Until there's rough gender parity that resembles the distribution of gender in the general population fairly closely, you're likely to see significant structural inequalities that hinder open participation in the first place.
Myself, I view this as a big problem and think it needs to b researched and actively mitigated. I'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't help noticing that my female avatars have to put up with an exponentially larger amount of random bullshit from other players. I'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's a fairly fundamental part of most people's identity.
Myself, I view this as a big problem and think it needs to b researched and actively mitigated. I'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't help noticing that my female avatars have to put up with an exponentially larger amount of random bullshit from other players. I'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's a fairly fundamental part of most people's identity.