Ursula K. Le Guin discussing her regrets about not using more gender-neutral language in her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness', the significance of pronouns, and the grammatical accuracy of the singular 'they':

"English has a truly ungendered pronoun only in the plural. He, she, and it are gendered, they is not. [...] Historically, and colloquially, they has been regularly used as an ungendered or bisexual singular."

🔗: http://theliterarylink.com/afterword.html

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Afterward to Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin 1994 | The Literary Link

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LeGuin later wrote at least one, maybe two additional short stories that take place on the same planet as _The Left Hand of Darkness_, which make extensive use of singular they. (I used to have everything LeGuin published, but then, life happened I don't have most of them anymore, so I can't check.)

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@lunavives @fringemagnet
Thank you! That's what I was trying to recall.