Did you know that Chinese didn’t have a word for “She” until about 100 years ago? In fact, Chinese operated without a female 3rd person pronoun for thousands of years, and it wasn’t a problem – until interaction with the west. Watch this video to learn the fascinating (albeit winding) history of Chinese gendered pronouns.
Even then, in spoken language he/she sound exactly the same. The distinction only exists in written form.
Everyone and everything can be Ta and I won’t apologise for that