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Every single person who complains that “they” is weird has, without the slightest wisp of a shadow of a doubt, said something along the lines of “yeah their coat is just over there” or “I think they were saying that…”. They can already do it, and it’s not hard, they just really wanna hate.
They is running late?
Singular "they" triggers agreement with the same verb forms as plural "they". Just like "you" - no matter if I'm saying "you are a muppet", it's still "are" (even if singular), not "art" or "bist" (as you'd use with "thou").
(inb4: the analogy between "you" and "they" is perfectly valid, because "they" is following the exact same path as "you" - even if one refers to the second person, another to the third.)
From your other comment:
They aren't. You're the one getting things wrong, by conflating grammatical number with agreement, as if they were in a 1:1 correspondence.