LaGrange -corr. moi svp

[soft bear]

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[twilit mica]

have a look at https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/iel as that is the most close-to-mainstream non-binary 3rd person pronoun that french has

[slender sage]

For pronouns, ask them which one they might prefer: « iel », « ille », and others exist
But since nouns have a gender, and adjectives have masculine and feminine forms, it might not be enough…

[shell fern]

in writing you can have both
"heureux(se)"

but idk how to do it in speech

[slender sage]

Some nouns keep the same form for both genders, they are « épicènes » (gender-neutral)
You may also use neologisms, for exemple “writer” might be « auteur » (masculine), « autrice » (feminine), or « auteurice » (neutral)
Since neologisms evolve quickly, there might be a lot of them. Wiktionary suggests also « autaire » and others

In speech, you can abuse the words for which all forms have the same pronounciation
For example, « beau/belle » is easily replaced with « joli/jolie »: both forms have the exact same pronounciation, so I’d consider it okay to describe a gender non-conforming person