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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

Using gendered pronouns

You can use gendered pronouns when you know the sex of the specific person or thing the sentence is talking.

Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon - he is well known by many people.

In fact, there’s no real way you can use a gender neutral pronoun in this sentence, because there is no singular, third person, gender neutral pronoun.

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