Using “they/them” pronouns to describe people is actually very simple and has some benefits. Prejudiced people often act like using they pronouns to describe people is some impossible, confusing, and new thing in our language. But in reality we’ve been doing it for literal centuries. It’s not at all confusing or hard. Like they say below, step one is learning to talk like a human person, lol:
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They is plural someone is not and cannot be more than one person.
they: used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified
they is also singular for a person of unspecified gender, and has been for centuries.
“they
/ðeɪ/
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pronoun
1.
used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified.
“the two men could get life sentences if they are convicted”
2.
used to refer to a person of unspecified gender.
“ask a friend if they could help””
you’re literally choosing to ignore the second definition to justify your bigotry
they earliest provable use of the word they as singular dates all the way back to 1375 in “William and the Werewolf” “Hastely hiȝed eche . . . þei neyȝþed so neiȝh . . . þere william & his worþi lef were liand i-fere.” In modern English, that’s: “Each man hurried . . . till they drew near . . . where William and his darling were lying together.”
It’s like you didn’t even read the article.
“You/your/yours” used to be plural or singular formal second-person pronouns. Singular informal second person pronouns were “thou/thee/thy”. But people changed it for their own convienience. Now it is always just “you”. Even if singular “they” were not already traditional, it could still become used if it is needed.
As a person whose first language is not english, it’s funny to see that those singular formal (I think you mixed up the “formal” and “informal”) pronouns are nowadays actually used when quoting the bible, which is the book “backing up” the people having trouble with the gender multiplicity and fluidity.
Gender identification is not the enemy here. Society’s definition of what it means to be a specific gender is. You people are fighting the wrong fight.