Also when I start ranting it's hard for me to stop... It's really a problem.

I'm sorry if I'll take an argument over words and their use seriously. If I feel strongly about something, I will defend it with my life.

(Might I suggest http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/19/top-10-words-invented-writers-authorisms. Or maybe videos are more your speed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63y-zV152w

Not to mention the disregard for an entire statement based on one word it includes. (And, might I raise to your attention: "huh
hə
exclamation
used to express scorn, anger, disbelief, surprise, or amusement.
"“Huh,” she snorted, “Over my dead body!”"
used in questions to invite agreement or further comment or to express a lack of understanding.
"pretty devastating, huh?"") Returning to my previous example, are the great works of Shakespeare himself now regarded as invalid simply because he needed a word that didn't exist already, so he invented it? Is Dr. Seuss any less of an author because he invented the word "nerd"?
How many times have you used the word bedroom? Blanket? Gossip, perhaps? Maybe COUNTLESS times? Are these words UNREAL, simply because they were invented by an author?
I'm sorry to RANT but your argument is simply LAUGHABLE.

And if "they" cannot be used to describe a single person, what word do you propose we use for those who don't define themselves as male or female? "It"? Do you propose we reduce these people to the same status as animals and inanimate objects?

Okay.
As a language is around for a while, it evolves. New words and meanings for preexisting words spring up all the time, just as situation requiring these new words and meanings arise. William Shakespear invented tons of words, are those proper English? Or maybe because he didn't ever use the words "vacuum cleaner", that's not a thing either? Words change, language evolves. Get used to it. Once upon a time, we didn't have a singular gender neutral pronoun. And we didn't really need one. (This is not to say people outside of the gender binary didn't exist, I'm just saying that, from my knowledge of history at this moment, I find it safe to assume that they most likely were not as visible or were persecuted if they expressed a desire to not conform to the gender binary.) And then, we did. We already had a plural gender neutral pronoun, so why not eliminate the process of creating a new word and just add a new meaning to a preexisting one?

God, kimbo, you really need to get out more.

And then their eyes were pecked out by birds.

Except 'they' can be used to refer to someone of an unspecified gender. Google it.

I have spent three hours trying to understand what meaning of "cheeky" you are referring to and I've come up empty.

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