The problem shows up when James *doesn't* remove himself, because he feels his requirements *have* been satisfied.
Imagine a panel which includes James, some male-looking fellows who have no issue calling themselves males, and one other person, someone who isn't comfortable talking about their appearance or their gender, and who really doesn't think their gender and their appearance is any of James' business, and doesn't want to discuss any of that, and doesn't want to be labeled. And yet James will be labeling that panelist as non-male, since James has very publicly declared of his requirement to be on a panel that is not all-male.
Or, imagine that James participates on a panel with a majority of people who look stereotypically white and one person who readily identifies as a POC, and one person who has more ambiguous appearance as seen by someone who thinks in terms of Canadian & US racial categories, and who tires of having people assume that they have had a life experience as a POC, as opposed to their own experience and their own circumstances, and their own identity. They are tired of being asked "well, wait, then what are you?" And yes, if James agreed to be a panel partially because they were on it too, they would be upset at being labeled as a POC.
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Imagine a panel which includes James, some male-looking fellows who have no issue calling themselves males, and one other person, someone who isn't comfortable talking about their appearance or their gender, and who really doesn't think their gender and their appearance is any of James' business, and doesn't want to discuss any of that, and doesn't want to be labeled. And yet James will be labeling that panelist as non-male, since James has very publicly declared of his requirement to be on a panel that is not all-male.
Or, imagine that James participates on a panel with a majority of people who look stereotypically white and one person who readily identifies as a POC, and one person who has more ambiguous appearance as seen by someone who thinks in terms of Canadian & US racial categories, and who tires of having people assume that they have had a life experience as a POC, as opposed to their own experience and their own circumstances, and their own identity. They are tired of being asked "well, wait, then what are you?" And yes, if James agreed to be a panel partially because they were on it too, they would be upset at being labeled as a POC.