Meanwhile G.711 makes all dudes sound like disgruntled middle aged union workers

Are you able to determine between gay and straight men just by listening to them? I was not aware of that...

What people have historically called a "gay lisp" is actually a hyper-articulation of /s/ or /z/, and as you might expect, /s/ and /z/ have a lot of high frequency sounds in them. Weird as it sounds there is a possible scenario where an audio codec does a worse job reproducing the audio content of gay male speech compared to straight male speech.

An ML model might be able to, even if you can’t.

Achieving the gaydar, do not give this technology to Saudi Arabia.

Yeah, imagine a low bitrate situation where only English speaking men can still communicate. That would create quite a power imbalance.

Questions of "which users can use my product and which can't" certainly encompass political views to be sure, but they also extend further beyond. I don't see why you feel the need to argue from the position of "woke devil's advocate" here.

For a politically-neutral example of why poor DEI practice can lead directly to worse products, see my sister comment about faucet sensors and black skin.

^- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/conservatives-have-one-joke

No offense/taken, but Codec2 seem to be affected a bit for this problem.