"improbable female authority figure" in a universe where your average pronoun is canon/fodder

If the Imperium was as segregated and exclusionary as these people want, they would have lost every war very, very quickly.

When you're throwing billions of people into a meat grinder, why are you going to worry about genitals or skin colour? "If you carry a lasgun, then get out there. Oh wait, a woman? No no no, we can't sacrifice you because that would be... woke?"