From experience with a school age kid, this kind of language is being drummed into youth, aka brainwashing, at least in "liberal" areas of the country. It's not the worst thing I've seen so don't worry too much, but agree that it is mildly annoying.

Edit: censoring this perspective is counterproductive I think, where even noticing the obsession with diversity framing will get you blacklisted. From history we know that suppression of ideas tends to end badly.

It's the new "Red Scare" except the color meaning has been flipped from Communist to Republican.

do you have a lot of experience with sophomore gender studies at "lower tier" ivies? Is there something specific you object to?

To attract youth to a lowly paying government job, they need to appeal to emotion. Same way tech companies attracted college kids by telling them they were helping to "save the world".

It’s a way to signal who they’re looking for without stepping into explicitly discriminatory language.