User blog comment:Mathias Custos/Fandom unite/@comment-25555436-20150729010014/@comment-24891101-20150729214931

So you'd go out of you way to use a deliberately insulting pronoun as opposed to the one which is correct under English grammar? Singular they is absolutely, incontestably correct in English, and has been for centuries. If you've used it before to refer to a vague person, then you should have no difficulty or concern over using it here, especially given that it is dehumanizing. It is neuter in gender, meaning that the entity is genderless, and thus inappropriate for 99%, who certainly do have a gender (ignoring the specifics of non-binary people) of the world's population, whereas they is basically common gender (to the extent to which it exists in English), and thus appropriate for every person on the planet, without knowing anything about them. I would venture so far as to say the connotations of it are such that it is incorrect, as few people use it to refer to people at all. In contrast, many people use they to refer to a person of unknown or immaterial gender, and is the generally-accepted term among the non-binary community. This much more common use is therefore correct.