"I'm starting my journey of learning Portuguese and totally understand the difficulty in avoiding gender in certain languages." Indeed. Gender isn't just about

"I'm starting my journey of learning Portuguese and totally understand the difficulty in avoiding gender in certain languages." Indeed. Gender isn't just about pronouns, and about half of the world's population uses more than one language, so it doesn't in general make sense to talk about "the pronouns of this person". (Can anyone think of a language that has compulsory expression of whether humans are male or female but doesn't express it through pronouns? ... Attempt to answer my own question: Kurmanjî Kurdish perhaps?)