NEW: Biden has released his diversity staff numbers for the first time tonight after an #AAPI forum.

[Ms. Toad]

15. No, but neither are gender or race.

People/entities who care about diversity make an effort to find (and count) diversity in a number of categories.

For example, in the application we use for law school, we ask about race, gender identity or presentation, sexual orientation, and preferred pronouns. None are required, but intentionally creating diverse community/employee group means not inadvertently surrounding ourselves by people who look like us becasue that's who we are most comfortable hanging out with. Particularly with categories that are not obvious, that means creating an atmosphere that invites people to share such information and expressly valuing diversity. Otherwise it's too easy to end up with an all cis-white-straight male group of employees. A first step to inviting and expressing how highly you value diversity is to share such information, including LGBT representation, publically. Kudos for sharing race and gender - but why the silence on LGBT representation?