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Ben, the use of “they” as a singular pronoun goes back AT LEAST to 1375, where we find it spelled w/a Middle English thorn for “th” in a manuscript about a werewolf
I have grad degree in Early BritLit and worked for Oxford’s Canterbury Tales Project; language is malleable af https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1174353226759622662