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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It's not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Which is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that "it" was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn't exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.

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