Let me clarify what I wanted to say with "recent trend": Singular they to refer to a hypothetical or unspecified person is very normal, any fluent speaker of E

Let me clarify what I wanted to say with "recent trend": Singular they to refer to a hypothetical or unspecified person is very normal, any fluent speaker of English, native or not, uses it frequently. But singular they to refer to an specific person is not so common. I have never anybody who speaks like that, and I have met many people in my life. Maybe it has been used for decades in some dialects, but I only started to notice it this year, with all the push for non-gendered, non-binary language and the like. In my book, that's a trend.