The "characteristics" which are "protected" are carefully selected by people with a particular political outlook. If you don't buy into the whole identity politics bullshit, you're not going to hand pick other "characteristics" to "protect" in order to find something to be offended by.
leave it to rest, you're arguing with people that lost their shit over a basketball that identified as a pumpkin (apparently a hateful and transphobic halloween meme).
The "characteristics" which are "protected" are carefully selected by people with a particular political outlook. If you don't buy into the whole identity politics bullshit, you're not going to hand pick other "characteristics" to "protect" in order to find something to be offended by.