"The ever-controversial pronoun 'hen' has won its battle and is set to officially become part of the Swedish language.

In April 2015 the Swedish Academy will release its dictionary, Svenska Akademiens ordlista, or SAOL. And 'hen', a pronoun with no gender, will be in it."

[...]

"...'hen' is not meant to replace gendered pronouns. Instead, it allows speakers to refer to a person without having to mention the gender if they don't know it, if the person is transgender, or if the information is considered irrelevant."


http://www.thelocal.se/20140729/gender-neutral-pronoun-enters-swedish-dictionary


"The word was first proposed in 1966, and again in 1994, with reference to the Finnish hän, a personal pronoun that is gender-neutral, since Finnish does not have grammatical genders. However, it did not receive widespread recognition until around 2010, when it began to be used in some books, magazines and newspapers, and provoked media debates and controversy over feminism, gender neutrality and parenting. In July 2014 it was announced that hen would be included in Svenska Akademiens ordlista, the official glossary of the Swedish Academy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_%28pronoun%29

It is very hapless of course that hen also happens to be English, and everyone in today's world knows what hen means, which makes the word sound ridiculous. Why cannot the Swedish gender-neutral word be cock?