[giraffe_lady]

this is mathematically similar too, and about as sensible as, statements like "it either kills me or it doesn't, so that's a 50% chance"

[pessimizer]

You're reading it wrong. They weren't saying that there's an equal chance for anyone to be born poor as to be born wealthy, they were saying the chances are the same for a straight person to be born either poor or wealthy as for a LGBT person to be born either poor or wealthy.

This is not always true for other minorities. A random black American isn't as likely to have been born into wealth as a random white American.