Letter: Choose the best

The Trump administration rails against DEI, (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), because its practice prevents the best people from being hired. DEI is just the opposite. Its purpose is to choose the best qualified by looking beyond straight, white males. There are talented people of all colors, sexes, religions, orientations and origins. If a straight, white male is the best choice, fine. But if you don’t look at members of other groups, you can miss the best person. To dismiss all other groups is discrimination. Secretary Hegseth is doing exactly that by trying to ban trans people from the military, even when the best at their job. We spend hundreds of th0ousands of dollars to train a helicopter pilot, yet the Secretary wants to fire a Blackhawk pilot from the Virginia National Guard because the pilot is trans. If the person is meeting all the requirements and doing the job, what else matters?