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 Second, for the great majority of the population —the whole “cis-normal” part, at least — there’s already a way of unfussily designating your gender: your ''title'': Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss, and Master. Of this great mass of hetero-normativity, only academics and medics have a quandary. Even they could fix it, if they cared to, by adding a gendered title to to their honorific, the same way judges do: Mr. Doctor Jung; Mrs. Doctor Freud, and so forth.
-Third, this pronoun angst is directed at ''third person singular'' pronouns. The other five buckets are fine as they are. Yet, when we addressing someone directly, we does not ''use'' the third person, except to distance oneself from a tendentious but firmly-held opinion, as the [[JC]] often does.<ref>Though this is to switch ''first'' person for third, not second. The ''first'' person does not need to lecture the world how he should refer to himself in the third person.</ref>
+Third, this pronoun angst is directed at ''third person singular'' pronouns. The other five buckets are fine as they are. Yet, when we address someone directly, we do not ''use'' the third person, except to distance ourselves from our ''own'' tendentious but firmly-held opinions, as the [[JC]] often does.<ref>Though this is to switch ''first'' for third person, not second. The ''first'' person does not need to lecture the world how he should refer to himself in the third person.</ref>
 The ''second'' person pronoun, “you” for most of the English speaking world, — “y’all”  for the Americans — is perfectly gender inclusive already.<ref>Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby made this point well in her show ''Douglas''.</ref> But this is the one we already use interpersonal communication. Wherever you may be on the gender spectrum, you are politely, unoppressively, uncontroversially, incontrovertibly, ''you''. I dare say language evolved like this precisely ''because'' of the difficulties one would otherwise have making polite conversation with unfamiliar individuals of an apparently, but not definitively, feminine or masculine bearing.