Readit NewsThe female part is actually a bit more surprising. Its easy to imagine a dataset not skewed towards black people. ~15% of the population in North America, probably less in Europe, and way less in Asia. But female? Thats ~52% globally.
It's recognizing and mitigating systemic bias, where there is currently a massive bias for whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, etc.
Consider that 65% of the US population is not white and male, yet something like 85% of the leading characters in all media are... white and male.
If you're going to argue that systemic bias does not exist, and that it's some kind of trendy passing fad to pretend that it does, you're not going to get very far before you're confronted with the statistical reality.
Sex is binary, based on gametes which are binary. Anything with a bimodal distribution will by necessity never be the right tool for determining something which is truly binary.
The next best determinant of sex other than gametes is the presence or absence of the SRY gene.