@Biff @GalacticTurtle @HebrideanHecate @blingring https://andrewbatson.com/2023/03/22/how-chinese-ruined-a-perfectly-good-gender-neutral-pronoun/
(Annoyingly this particular account has a “yay, we could have handled non-binary people” vibe to it - the article I was looking for was by a linguistics scholar at Harvard, but I can’t find it.)