No clue about French but in German they started to use both versions at the same time glued together in made-up "special" forms. It's like using "he/she" for every noun. This makes texts completely unreadable and you need even browser extensions[1] to not go crazy with all that gendered BS language!
OK, I exaggerate, there are still people that don't try to be "politically correct" and still use proper language, and know that there is such a thing called "Generisches Maskulinum (English: generic masculine)"[2]. But in more "official" writings or in the media the brain dead double-forms are used up until the point you can't read such texts any more: Those double-forms (which are not correct German) cause constant knots in the head when trying to read a text that was fucked up this way.
(Sorry for the strong words but one just can't formulate it differently. As the existence of that browser extensions shows clearly I'm not alone when it comes to going mad about that rape of language. Also often whole comment sections don't discuss a topic at hand but instead most people complain about the usage of broken "gendered" pseudo-politically-correct BS language. That noun-gendering is like a disease!)
OK, I exaggerate, there are still people that don't try to be "politically correct" and still use proper language, and know that there is such a thing called "Generisches Maskulinum (English: generic masculine)"[2]. But in more "official" writings or in the media the brain dead double-forms are used up until the point you can't read such texts any more: Those double-forms (which are not correct German) cause constant knots in the head when trying to read a text that was fucked up this way.
(Sorry for the strong words but one just can't formulate it differently. As the existence of that browser extensions shows clearly I'm not alone when it comes to going mad about that rape of language. Also often whole comment sections don't discuss a topic at hand but instead most people complain about the usage of broken "gendered" pseudo-politically-correct BS language. That noun-gendering is like a disease!)
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/binnen-i-be-g... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generisches_Maskulinum