The singular they has been common in English for almost four hundred years. If gender is unknown or irrelevant to the sentence, then they is completely grammatically correct.

If you're trying to make a political statement, then I think that pointing out the use of they is more of a statement than the use of it is.

	▲	efilife 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		this is not a political statement, the author's gender is just known so there's no reason to use they

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ultrarunner a day ago | parent | prev [-]

At risk of… what? Being uncomfortable?