I think I would rather adopt the practice of using the masculine gender for people or animals in indeterminate cases. Using "it" or "he/she" is just awkward, serves no purpose, and smacks of the stupid convention promoted by democrats to use silly words like "spokesperson" and "chairperson".
I've always been in favor of using the masculine pronoun when the gender of someone is not stated or known; after all, "he," "him," and "his" originally pertained to anyone, not just males. The masculine pronouns are inclusive, not exclusive.
However, with the primitives, one is faced with a dilemma, especially given that so many primitives lurk here. Primitives are woefully ignorant of the origin of words, and so erroneously misconstrue the masculine pronouns as "sexist," when in fact they're about as nonsexist as one can get.
So for the sake of the primitives, one has to dumb down the language one uses.
In real life, and in all other things on the internet, I use the masculine pronouns when the gender is not known, but make an exception for the primitives, but the primitives only.
By the way, thanks for pointing out stupidities and crudities such as "spokes******" and "chair******", both of which have the syllable "son"--male heir--in them, and if the primitives thought their convoluted and tortured logic all the way through, the primitives would ban the use of those words too.