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I actually really like this idea. Why should gender identity get it's own class of pronouns when no other kind of identity does?
(Totally a guess): Perhaps in the past gender mattered a lot more than other factors did in common day to day interactions.
Or it might be that other factors would have required more than 2 or 3 pronouns -- or didn't apply to as many people -- so were less likely to catch on.
Linguistic happenstance. Many languages lack both gendered pronouns and gendered nouns. English is unusual among Indo-European language in that nouns lack gender. Some languages (can’t recall one) have pronoun classes for inert, animate, and sentient. Which I like
Turkish lacks grammatical gender in pronouns, while the Turkish people are not renowned for their enlightened views on gender roles. The issue here is that pronouns are ‘deep code’ in languages, changing them is challenging. Not impossible, as thou might recognize...
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