As I understand it, generally it prefers being referred to in the third person with inanimate it/its pronouns, including by itself, but in a professional setting they and she can be acceptable. And to clarify, I'm not trying to "call it out" on its mistake or something, I'm just trying to understand
Your curiosity is welcome, don't heed the sibling commenter: they essentially seem to be acting like a troll, most of their comments are flagged.
Then again, I don't have an answer here, just wanted to offset the negativity. Nice blog post though, some of the other comments are pretty cool, especially the mentions of the "clumsy" tool.
Yeah, I ended up asking some of my LGBT friends and we had a bit of a discussion about the circumstances of using "it" and how it can feel uncomfortable sometimes