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Sorry, not a native English speaker here. In my native German, it is usually proper to use the male form for the undetermined gender. This might leak into my use of the English language. I would be happy, if you could rephrase the offending sentence in correct gender-neutral English, so I could avoid this mistake in future.

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The correct way to be neutral in english would be "tuned to their needs"

Not to be pedantic, but the male form is actually also the neutral form in English; "their" is not actually correct. That said, I think it's entirely appropriate to use it in practice.

Singular they is used and appropriate in English as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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