[anjc]

> First of all, we hurt members of our LGBTQ+ community when they felt they couldn’t participate authentically

> thank you for acknowledging that. I will be able to sleep in peace tonight knowing that I have still a place here

If users were genuinely unable to sleep because one random faceless person asked if they could continue their practice of only using gender neutral pronouns, then this seems to be a situation in which you shouldn't apologise to them, because they'll never be satisfied. It must be a nightmare being assigned to a CoC project now.