This suggests conservatives are secretly strong though. We know that’s not the case.

Most languages don’t have gendered pronouns, actually. It’s really mostly random romance languages, and nearly all of them have a neuter option.

In your sentence they unambiguously refers to fion. It’s really not that hard for a fluent speaker. I’m not a native and this shit is simple, it’s unwritten but innately known like the order of adjectives when multiple are present.

You use singular they every single day or at most every single week and you have for your entire life and so did all of your English speaking ancestors including middle English.

'how far out is the pizza guy’s ‘they’re 15 minutes out’

‘my coworker was a pain in the ass today’ ‘what they’d do this time?’

‘i think my doctor is famous’ ‘oh what’s their name?’

They was singular before it was plural, and it’s singular use is still one of the most common pronouns in English.