> I want to be elevating the voices of women, non-binary and trans people in these kinds of spaces so we can change the culture of our industry.

There is a kind of radical meritocracy about a github account. Nobody knows the gender of the member unless they make it explicit, so the counts of stars and watches and forks are largely unmarred by gender bias.

But this system does not noticeably elevate the voices of marginalized genders. To do so you would have to emphasize identity over blind merit. E.g. require that members identify their gender and highlight it as part of their profile or avatar, award some genders more stars or watches than others, prioritize their pull requests, etc. It's difficult to imagine a way to do this without compromising the quality of the code. Does equity require it anyway?

If we prioritize the hiring and promotion of some genders over others for coding jobs, the same tension exists between quality and equity.