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Political correctness

Avoid feminised nouns

Avoid something-man nouns

Avoid gender assumptive language

Gender neutral pronouns

Using gendered pronouns

Using gender neutral pronouns

Gender neutral names of people

Using he she

Racism homophobia religion sexism

Political correctness gone too far

Gender neutral pronouns

There are two types of pronouns - gendered pronouns and gender neutral pronouns.

Gendered pronouns specify the sex of the thing that they’re representing. Gender neutral pronouns do not. Here’s a gendered pronoun:

I do not know whether he is coming to dinner.

And here’s a gender neutral pronoun:

I do not know whether they are coming to dinner.

Most of the pronouns in the English language are gender neutral. Only the third person singular pronouns are gendered - ‘he’ and ‘she’.

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