Eli5: Why do you use “they” for non-gendered speech instead of “it”?

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I’m not a native speaker, but as far as I understood, for singular objects and animals “it” was used. Why use “they” for individual people then?

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“it” is reserved for non humans.

If you called someone “it” you would be calling them a thing, or an animal, or a monster… something less than human.

Its a huge insult.

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