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by derefr 2449 days ago
Pronouns are political insofar as even having grammatical gender in the English language is a continuous political decision made by a linguistic enclave; and interpreting said grammatical gender as having something to do with gender-identity is another political decision by that linguistic enclave. (Think: adding keywords to a programming language as a political decision.)

Other languages—and even other linguistic enclaves of English-speakers or English-creole speakers—don’t have this problem; either for lack of grammatical gender, or for lack of an association between grammatical gender and gender identity.