I've contemplated a sort of 'minimally offensive' register of language where you do remove any and all pronouns (that is, the ones someone might object to, alon

I've contemplated a sort of 'minimally offensive' register of language where you do remove any and all pronouns (that is, the ones someone might object to, along with all other language that might be objected to) while being as natural as possible so that no one notices your lack of usage of any bit of language (though someone analysing the corpus of your writing certainly would). Seems like a technique a corporation seeking to avoid controversy would employ, though I suppose by its very nature I wouldn't notice if one were successful in doing so! I always find it interesting to consider other languages when discussing things like this. It's generally easy to eliminate arbitrary words from your personal dialect, but grammatical gender can't be so simply ignored in most Indo-European languages, nor can it be eliminated, the status quo of gender agreement (e.g., of adjectives and the nouns they modify) being a crucial part of the evolved flow of information in each natural language. However, I still think there's an 'elegant' resolution, which is to consider grammatical gender as 'yet another noun class system'. You can then, in a language-neutral way, move all people (optionally also animals, etc.) to one grammatical gender (now we argue over whether the 'one gender' should be the existing masculine or feminine--not all languages have the neuter!). All other words would retain current their grammatical genders (and m/f/n might be renamed to something like class 1/2/3). Words for people (e.g., man/woman) could also be moved, but don't have to, since their noun classes would now be entirely orthogonal to people's gender. This is still too large of a change to convince people to actually adopt, but it's certainly more reasonable than the drastic alternative and more elegant IMO than the other proposals I've seen. Plus, it was never the case that grammatical genders could be always be made to agree (take, for example, two nouns of differing gender in apposition or coreference), and there's already a case like this in the German 'Mädchen' ("girl"). As a diminutive, it's grammatically neuter, so words modifying it also take the neuter. Distant anaphors formally also do, but colloquially they're often feminine.