What's the deal latelly with subs using "they" instead of "it"?

>there are still people that don't know about singular they
What kind of rock do you live under

My main language doesn't have this kind of issues. Objects in it have male or female pronouns, and when referring to both at the same time, we use male ones.

>subs

>singular they
It just sounds wrong and a try hard way to be inclusive.

This right here
is a teenage newfag

ITT: ESL trying to tell native English speakers what correct English is when they're barely amateurs

English has "it" which is singular gender neutral but it's usually used for objects or animals. Using it for a person will get you weird looks at least, and could offend people. And this has nothing to do with the whole gender garbage going on these days. It was like that before that started. So people started using they for a singular gender neutral pronoun (Look up the history, it's in no way recent, but retards still sometimes call you out on it. They're the same kinds of idiots that in the past were shitting on people for splitting infinitives and other retarded "it's in Latin so it must be good" rules). You can still use he or she but for me (a native English speaker) using those can sound kind of stilted unless the person you're talking to is also aware of the sex/gender of the person you're talking about.

It's been used forever and was certainly used before the inclusivity stuff started.

>It's been used forever and was certainly used before the inclusivity stuff started.
Well fuck, I guess I wasn't exposed to it that much.

Only the first quote is mine, though.
I know, which is why i said "XIX century english" on my original post.

>"They" has been used for ungendered for quite a while.
It's what I learned in school like 20 years ago so I am always surprised when people claim it's a recent thing.