It is a sad state we live in when people are constantly judged on things they have no control over rather than our intellectual merits.
This is probably the most troubling part of identity-politics, that we are being compartmentalized by factors we cannot control and are implicitly/explicitly disallowed to act upon factors that we can. The same short-witted thinking that led to underlying racism in previous generations seems to be creeping back in today's discourse.
Thanks for the great comment Jason!