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Good point. If you use "they" to describe the actions of one single individual who may or may not be part of a company, you're going to wrongfully attribute the actions of that one individual to an entire group. Considering what the association is, this could be anything from disruptive to downright dangerous.I played a text based game once that, unbeknownst to me before, contained a 'nonbinary' character. Not only was the character still clearly described as female, and even had a female name, so idk where the nonbinary part comes in - it made for terribly confusing writing. Say there's two people, one uses they/them and the other doesn't. And then you get a sentence like 'They go down the stairs'. Is it both?? Or just the genderspecial one? Singular them for no reason destroys language
FFS, you teach 3-year-olds who've only recently learned to construct sentences that the phrase "dog chases cat" and "cat chases dog" mean very different things.