What is this nonsense? Why do conference organizers need to care about finding speakers to represent fat people, for example? Is this really a tech conference?
It's ridiculous. These things are becoming "fill some gender/race quota" and not "have knowledgeable speakers" because some random nobody will get offended and start a social media shitstorm about the fact there's no obese trans black woman speaker, so clearly the conference must be anti-gay, anti-black, transphobic and fatphobic cesspit.
In addition to adding 3 new gluten-free keynote speakers (To be announced) we removed a speaker that does not align with our mission of equally representing gluten-free.
This a community conference to support collaboration among developers with different dietary preferences and we want ALL developers to feel comfortable with the dietary preferences of all our speakers particularly our keynoters.
I apologise this action took 4.1 minutes to cement.We had to formulate the tweets first..
Oh wait. The people wanting this stuff only care about diversity of appearance, not diversity of thought.