Maybe also worth mentioning: In the English language the plural "they" is sometimes (often?) used in modern times to replace the singular "he" and "she" when the gender is unknown or doesn't perfectly fit. Yeah, all that equal rights and LQBT* stuff can get complicated and certainly has an effect on language.

* or whatever the acronym is this week. That, too, seems to get more complicated all the time.

It sounds weird at first, but it makes writing and reading stuff on the internet a lot easier and prevents accidentally offending someone. Instead of having to write "he/she" or "(s)he", just use "they". So, for example, it would be "LanX wrote a post. They said...". Which has the benefit of not having to virtually stalk LanX to find out what gender (if any) LanX feels like having today.

As a side note: This would probably have confused Shakespeare less then you'd think. All their actors were male because of the culture of the time. So, technically, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most well known romance if theater history, were both dudes (probably, who knows), one of them wearing female clothes, and you would have to switch gender when talking about them, depending on their stage character or their person.