"Please avoid gender specific language in the reference and use they/them throughout". Of course, yes. "Elizabeth Ming-Yue Cheung is an outstanding student, and their gender - and I am sure also their heritage - are completely obscured by my diddling with their pronouns in this reference". #ThoroughlyThoughtThrough (Why not explicitly ask me to refer to them as The Applicant too? Maybe they're redacting the names later? But you could do that as badly/automatically as for pronouns so ... 🤷‍♂️)