It's not really about the odds though, it's more about creating norms and normative behavior. For folks that deviation from "normal", they tend to face microaggressions from others, and possibly outright discrimination and physical violence.
Personally instead of tripping over myself trying not to make every permutation of human diversity feel uncomfortable, I think I'll let them just deal with their hurt feelings i.e the consequences of "microaggressions". Its character building. As for outright discrimination and violence we have laws for that.
Microaggressions aren't character building, they tend to be the most common way racism and sexism are expressed by most people and they create cultures that alienate and attack the validity of people of different races, genders, etc. If you are curious for more, this a decent article from the APA about microaggressions that covers some basics: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx
I think I'll let them just deal with their hurt feelings i.e the consequences of "microaggressions". Its character building.
Except that it's not character building. It's not helpful and it's not good for people. It's harmful and doesn't help people. The original article refers to it taking a lot of courage and work to consistently out themselves. What makes you think consistently putting those barriers up where people need to come out is helpful? Punching someone's arm every hour will not make them stronger, and consistently presuming gay people don't exist won't help gay people.
Do you still want to do it, even if it turns out you're actually hurting people?
