I think that would probably end up with us in a generally better place from a technical perspective than reusing the gender neutral pronouns but given how aggre

I think that would probably end up with us in a generally better place from a technical perspective than reusing the gender neutral pronouns but given how aggressive some people have been at misgendering folks I think it'd take a rather long time to actually gain adoption. Additionally, unlike say German, there isn't really any standard board of English and it's an international language so getting countries to actually agree to such a change seems difficult. I also, honestly, don't think it'd be significantly more difficult to switch each gender over to he or she than to use one of the novel pronouns like "ye" or "xhe" though pronunciation would take a while to normalize. Themselves/themself is a bit tricky (as pointed out in a sibling thread) but they are tools that exist today and are pretty serviceable - I really don't think you could put "And thus has Eliza Callahan suddenly found themselves a poet with a lot more name recognition among tech workers." in front of anyone and get genuine confusion about what I was saying back - it's perfectly legible, even if some of the grammar might be off.