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English already has perfectly useful gender-neutral pronouns: it, its. Use them. Do not use they, them for singular objects. Do not use the abhorrent, artificial 'hir', 'zie', 'blim', 'gur', or whatever. Yes, people can be called 'it'. Deal with it.

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By the way, I'm a lousy typist so assume any typos are mine rather than the writers.

Sabin, William A., The Gregg Reference Manual, ninth ed., Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Lederer, Richard and Dowis, Richard, Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999.