The perspective from someone who learned English as a first language is that it&#x27;s just as annoying a linguistic issue as it is to those who learned English later. Those of us raised on English likewise have a bad time with ambiguous gender situations (&quot;he&#x2F;she&quot;). Used to be just &quot;he&quot; when ambiguous&#x2F;irrelevant, but sociopolitical outrage over possible misapplication of the pronoun discourages such use, so our choice is either the obnoxious &quot;he&#x2F;she&quot; (raising the issue of alternate applicability in a context where it really doesn&#x27;t matter) or the now-common but still irritating singular &quot;they&quot; (ignoring the plural definition, and implying attempted reconciliation for the originating sociopolitical angst).