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On English Wikipedia, writing about a non-binary person can be as simple as choosing "they." In Czech it cannot. Czech grammar marks gender on verbs, adjectives, participles, and even on the form of a surname, so there is no single switch to flip, and the most portable English fix gets you only part of the way. This talk follows three places where Czech Wikipedia has had to work gender out from scratch: the -ová suffix traditionally attached to women's surnames and whether to impose it on foreign names, how to decline the names of women who reject -ová, and how to write the biography of a non-binary person when the grammar forces a gendered choice in almost every sentence. None of it is governed by a single settled rulebook. The conventions formed piecemeal, case by case, through RfCs, talk-page arguments, and the occasional edit war. The session is a case study in how a community working in a grammatically gendered language reinvents inclusive practice locally, and it speaks directly to anyone editing in Polish, German, Spanish, French, or any other gendered language.
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