Given 'In recent decades, certain changes have taken place in the language that reflect voluntary choices of the words used to characterize people; these have focused largely on the conscious and conscientious substitution of neutral, sexless words like individual(s), person , and people for terms that normally denote only males.', can 'Over some years in the near past there have been a voluntary, deliberate change in word choices.' be seen as maintaining a distinct, neutral position?
In recent decades, certain changes have taken place in the language that reflect voluntary choices of the words used to characterize people; these have focused largely on the conscious and conscientious substitution of neutral, sexless words like individual(s), person , and people for terms that normally denote only males.###Over some years in the near past there have been a voluntary, deliberate change in word choices.