If you want the full story, see The Telegraph 14 February 2023: Use ‘egg-producing’ not ‘female’, say scientists in call to phase out binary language.

French Prof. Margaret Dempster, Director of the French language program, said the controversy is not in gendering inanimate objects, but rather in the lack of formal non-binary pronouns.

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues ...