Gender pronouns - using them or not?

I explicitly wrote all our new policies to be gender neutral. Employee/They/Them etc.

If I see him/her in text it makes me flinch - I'd actually rather the legal practice of using him and assuming it to mean both a male or female than spell both out.

One debate I did have when drafting was the correct gender-neutral terminology for "His Excellency, the Governor". It tends to get shortened to HE, The Governor to gender-neutralise it, but I do wonder if "Their Excellency" would be better. There never has been a female Governor here yet, but that's not to say it won't happen.

Or, indeed, a gender-fluid one, or just someone who prefers not to be identified by a gender-specific pronoun regardless of their personal gender identification.

Perhaps "Just Call Me" Harry is leading the way towards a general abolition of these faux-medieval honorifics.

Or, indeed, a gender-fluid one, or just someone who prefers not to be identified by a gender-specific pronoun regardless of their personal gender identification.

Perhaps "Just Call Me" Harry is leading the way towards a general abolition of these faux-medieval honorifics.