Grudem and Poythress wrote, "The earliest complete translations of the Bible to adopt a gender-neutral translation policy were apparently the New Century Version (NCV) and the International Children’s Bible (ICB), both published by Worthy Publishing Company, which was sold to Word Publishing in 1988. The simplified ICB says nothing in its preface about its gender-neutral translation policy. But the NCV gives some explanation.
Grudem and Poythress wrote that the first translations to use a neutral approach were probably the New Century Version (NCV) and the International Children’s Bible (ICB), both published by Worthy Publishing Company before it was acquired by Word Publishing in 1988. The ICB's simplified version does not discuss its neutral translation policy, whereas the NCV provides some explanation.