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by adontz 1989 days ago
I am from Georgia, (the country not state). My coworkers are generally LGBT neutral or friendly, never heard anything bad from anyone. I personally attend most pro-LGBT rallies. In our language, the Georgian language, there is just one pronoun for all genders, so we don't care. I personally consider enforcing others' choice of specific words in their speech a generally questionable practice.
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> In our language, the Georgian language, there is just one pronoun for all genders, so we don't care.

That's a nice feature! As mentioned elsewhere, some languages (e.g. German) gender literally every noun, which makes it very complicated to adapt the language to these new conventions. English is comparatively lucky in that for the most part only pronouns are gendered. In English, gendered words for professions, like "actress," went out of fashion some time ago.

"Actress" was still in use at the 2020 Academy Awards: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/entertainment/oscars-winners-...
Yes, there are no gender-specific occupation names in Georgian.