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Gender-neutral pronouns are words that are used neutrally and one gender is not addressed or a single male or female is not addressed, it has been observed that we tend to call people as He or She because it’s a common practice to use he/him for male and her/she for female but it can be improved by us.
If we use that pronoun, it won’t affect any gender, but if we use the commonly used word he and she, it would somewhere affect transgenders and it would make them feel excluded from humans or genders. There are many words which point out gender may it daily used or pointing human. For e.g., in school students are addressed as ‘boys and girls it can be done another way as ‘students’. We should try to replace the gender-specific words with neutral words like Everybody, All of you, Everyone, etc.
It doesn’t mean if transgender is not around us and so we can use gender terms to call, but if they are not around then also, we should practice speaking and using the words which will make each person as equal. There are many used words in day-to-day speech like man, women which can be addressed as humans; wife and husband can be replaced by partner, salesman which we often speak it but can be improved by salesperson, etc.
So there is a need for us to start something which is still not started by many, but if it is started using this gender-neutral word all around us and with us, will practice and implement it in daily speech and writing.