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When I type ‘themself’ into Word, it automatically changes to ‘themselves’. However, as with many of the decisions Word sometimes makes for you, you shouldn’t allow it without careful thought.
‘Themself’, the reflexive pronoun for the singular ‘they’, has been in use for years, is approved by the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (section 5.48), and, like ‘yourself’, has the advantage of conveying the fact that an individual is being referred to.
If you want to read more about ‘themself’, Sarah Grey wrote a blog about it in 2017, and I wrote a blog about it too, in 2019.