The vote followed the previous year's approval of this use by The Washington Post style guide, when Bill Walsh, the Posts copy editor, said that the singular they is "the only sensible solution to English's lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun".
The vote followed the previous year's approval of this use by The Washington Post style guide, when Bill Walsh, ,the Posts copy editor said that the singular they is "the only sensible solution to English's lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular p.ersonal pronoun"