Personally I like David Brin&#x27;s solution from the Uplift novels. Most of the things we want to say have nothing to do with sex and apply regardless of gender, so if we aren&#x27;t going to let the same words double for male and gender-neutral usage, keep the traditional, simple words for the latter usage and move the former to something else. Thus, in Brin&#x27;s novels, &#x27;man&#x27; refers to any human with no implication of gender, and the words for a specifically male or female human are &#x27;mel&#x27; and &#x27;fem&#x27;.