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Itd just be the "singular they" that English was using even before Shakespeare and other languages like Chinese still use.
It's weird how many people get worked up about it now. It's literally always correct and removes what's almost always extrenous information.
Exactly
It's just always been ironic the two groups most opposed to it are the most extreme on either side of the issue
If he/she disappeared tomorrow and everyone just always used "they", >95% of us wouldn't care.
But ~5% of people would probably be really really pissed. Because they've made the entire idea of gender and sexuality their entire personality.
That stuff being tribialized never works out well for any of us. We need to aim for society where it just really doesn't matter.
The only true equality is people genuinely not giving a fuck about it. And the first step to that is abolishing the distinction that language places between genders. As long as language draws a line, the human brain wants to put everyone on one side or the other.
If there's no line, there's no division.