My thought process just now.
It’s fun that the alien races in this story don’t have a concept of the gender binary so I can just address them as “they” all the time.
[2 minutes later]
Wait, these alien races would also address the main character as “they” since the alien races have no idea what a girl is! And she could also not refer to herself as a girl because the alien races would have no idea what she means! Nice!
[….5 minutes later]
Wait, I could actually make the main character genderqueer yALL
Pass Through Fire 