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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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Finnish has a gender-neutral third person pronoun which applies to both he and she: hän. This is distinct from the neuter third person pronoun of "se". Finaldn was alos the first country in the northern hemisphere to give women the vote.

Finnish pronouns don't seem likely to be adopted any time soon by English speakers. However, it does give an opportunity to be rude to people who complain about sexist use of "he" or "she".