I’ve been familiar (as a sometimes German reader) with this strategy for gender equality in language for several decade. Afaict it’s very common, at least in left-leaning circles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnen-I
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…but a more recent strategy (which I wasn’t familiar with), explicitly aimed to be non-binary-inclusive, is this, the so-called Gender star: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star
https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_neutral_language_in_German#:~:text=In%20German%2C%20there%20is%20the,frau%22%20or%20%22mensch%22.