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It's natural to use they/them for any gender in ordinary English

"your 2 o'clock appointment is here"

"sorry I'm running a bit late, can you please ask them if they don't mind waiting 10 minutes"


Never mind modern usage, OED traces it back to medieval English.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...




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