Your examples and questions on journalism standards are well stated and do need to be considered by the wider journalism practitioner audience. This should not be a narrow political issue. Regardless of what language is used, making it more confusing to suit a small dimension of humanity will only bring about misunderstandings that should not happen. There are languages in the world that preface nouns with articles that are either masculine, feminine or neuter. For example: Will Germanic speakers have to discard die, der and das from their languages?
Your examples and questions on journalism standards are well stated and do need to be considered by the wider journalism practitioner audience. This should not be a narrow political issue. Regardless of what language is used, making it more confusing to suit a small dimension of humanity will only bring about misunderstandings that should not happen. There are languages in the world that preface nouns with articles that are either masculine, feminine or neuter. For example: Will Germanic speakers have to discard die, der and das from their languages?