Your curiosity is welcome, don't heed the sibling commenter: they essentially seem to be acting like a troll, most of their comments are flagged.

Then again, I don't have an answer here, just wanted to offset the negativity. Nice blog post though, some of the other comments are pretty cool, especially the mentions of the "clumsy" tool.

Yeah, I ended up asking some of my LGBT friends and we had a bit of a discussion about the circumstances of using "it" and how it can feel uncomfortable sometimes