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What are the pronouns they/them in your language?
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Most European languages have no equivalent, since everything is gendered, not just pronouns. Efforts to embed equality in those languages go the other way - adding female gendered terms for male-dominated professions and vice-verse, as opposed to removing gender which is just too hard.
Russian in particular is spoken in places where they're hostile to the whole idea. They have a neuter gender, and you might see it used in a mocking "it" kind of way for queer people of all kinds.
For languages outside the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic families it's usually a moot issue; 3/4 have no grammatical gender features at all.