Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

  • Malgas@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.

    But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…