wouldn't using they with a plural verb be misgendering the individual like what if they identify as a flock of geese
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that's the "collective" gender which uses plural they, not the "nonspecific" gender which uses singular they
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for the former the reflexive pronoun is themselves, for the latter it's themself
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themself will haven be trippin
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i think a more elegant way of explaining it is that the pronouns are underspecified for number, and the plural verb forms are less marked than the singular
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it is elegant, but i don't think the plural forms actually are less marked, i think the formation is just being controlled by the conditioned expected formation attached to "they"
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In US English and formal British English, this is also the case with nouns that refer to groups of people: "The army is killing journalists" vs. "soldiers are killing journalists"
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