What I meant is that in German there is die, der and das (neutral) which at least gives an idea of something neither masculine nor feminine. In French we indee

What I meant is that in German there is die, der and das (neutral) which at least gives an idea of something neither masculine nor feminine. In French we indeed have "je" (I) and "tu" (you) that is non-gendered but as you noted the sentence still holds the genre. The idea to introduce "iel" (and contraction of "il" (he) and "elle" (she)) did not catch and I think I never saw it being used in practice. Now, your last point is very interesting - there is no way to say "I am new" in a non-gendered way in French (I have not seen anyone discussing this, actually)