I’ve been tossed around many an office as a temp over the last decade, and I can say with certainty that for pretty much every case where someone’s gender is unknown or one specific person isn’t being described, it is 1000x easier to just use “they” anyway.
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On behalf of every office admin who has had to replace all of the pronouns in that copy-pasted clause, or tried to divine what to write only from the name “Jean”, or wasted a day writing macros/setting up specific mail merges: Just. Let. Us. Use. They.

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