I swing between "I'm just a software engineer, let's aim for logical consistency and let anyone define the world the way they want to" and "I am a software engineer and I play a meaningful and serious role in shaping the way people interpret reality".

I really hope the standards folk were leaning more towards the former view of their role here rather than the latter.

The latest technical report (is that different to the draft discussed here?) seems to hold to a more common sense approach: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-20.html#Gender