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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Edit apparently my comment was auto removed by a bot because

“Sin begins when you treat a person as a thing”

Wasn’t descriptive enough.

I think thebbot just hates Terry prachett.

Anyways

Bigots love to dehumanizing and reduce people they don’t like to an object.

People have used “it” to refer to transgender people because they hate them and want other people to not think of them as human.

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