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In Spanish, everything is gendered, usually descenable by an -a or -o ending.
So Spanish requires you to pick the male/female linguistic gender to refer to a person in order to say that their gender doesn't fit on the male/female binary.
I believe Spanish speakers just resolve it by using -o by default, because linguistic gender is not identical to social gender.
It's roughly like if English made you say "they're masculine-non-binary".
@ricecake @sun_is_ra, There are also those that are gendern in Spain, using e in the endings, instead of a or o, although it is phonetically horrible to use the neutro for all.
I think that the language is what it is and sexism is not fought by committing atrocities to the language, but with education, respect and empathy.
Sexist people are recognized by their actions and behaviors, although they use gender-neutral language.