However it has increasingly been interpreted as a "male" pronoun used for both genders.

The normally male pronouns such as "he" or "him" are used to denote sexual interest in the subject by the speaker.

Martin said yes, but managed to talk about it without either a female or a male pronoun crossing his lips.

He began identifying her as "the Father" and often referred to her with male pronouns.

You can avoid using the male pronoun as follows:

Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit.

Did you have to do extra imaginative work to compensate for the use of the male pronoun?

Some of the girls were reacting now, but only to her slavish use of the male pronoun.

One should not use male pronouns with female anatomy.

So we opted for the male pronoun by default.