If we actually followed the “your gender identity is mildly inconvenient to me so should be banned” crowd and made everything unambiguously gendered, language would become far more awkward.

“If someone calls and I’m not there, tell him or her that he or she can leave a message”.

We could start doing this right now – every time they he or she use uses the word “they”, insist they he or she repeats themselves himself or herself in a way that leaves no gender ambiguity…