Finn here. As someone pointed out, we have the gender-neutral pronoun "hän" in our language. I often wish English had an equivalent. It's very convenient somet

Finn here. As someone pointed out, we have the gender-neutral pronoun "hän" in our language. I often wish English had an equivalent. It's very convenient sometimes. Hän is fine, but most of the time we use the Finnish word for "it" instead. The word is "se" in Finnish, and it normally behaves exactly like the English equivalent - it's basically meant to be used for animals and objects. Se is used because saying hän is too much work, or it would sound too formal when you're just talking with your friends etc. Basically, we only use hän when we want to take care to sound respectful in some specific situation or when writing something that's not supposed to be casual. At any rate, worrying about a gender-neutral pronoun making people confused about their sexual identities is just silly.