Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-2162194-20130713192557/@comment-25939326-20160116005701

That depends. Many writers used 'he' because that was an accepted gender-neutral term. I know Spanish and I think Hebrew use plural masculine forms for a mix of both genders.

But this is an irrelevant philisophical arguement. I would propose using 'they' or 'it' depending on context as a rule of thumb.