Not entirely but it's obviously part of their war on pattern recognition. For at least a decade normal straight women with husbands would refer to him as her "partner". It's not explicit but it's very much a part of prog culture to avoid giving relevant information about sex.
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I'm really confused as to how you get lost on Mount Elbert it's the simplest imaginable trail topology, just one route straight from trailhead to summit and well-marked all the way
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You have always been able to do that by painstakingly reworking every sentence to use plurals. The difference is that now illiterates copy the appearance of plurals without understanding what went on to create the gender-nonspecific sentences.
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