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?
In: 1400
Because that is just how the language always worked.
“a customer was looking for you” “oh, where did they go?”
As you see, if you look at normal parlance, we always used ‘they’ for persons of which we don’t know the gender yet.
This whole idea that this is a new thing is just not true.
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