Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26021653-20160330190730/@comment-26202330-20160410123629

Youssef zenox wrote: do gems use she or it because i never see any gem say she except the crystal gems and peridot after joining them. they just say the peridot, the jasper , the lazuli , the fusion Well, the topic of spoken language is all kind of wonky, since they all speak English (even to each-other with no humans around) despite having a unique written language. Logically they would all "speak Gem" just like they "write and read Gem".

I think that Gems speaking English to each-other (and therefore using female pronouns for each-other) is just something you have to accept for the sake of it being a cartoon that needs to be made watchable/understandable by us, the audience.