Language should be inclusive. This implies that it should be accessible for as many people as possible. The concept of easy-to-read language ("Leichte Sprache," LS) developed for this purpose and primarily for people with learning difficulties is beneficial for L2 learners of German as well. Inclusive language also entails the aspect of acknowledging gender diversity: people of each gender should be represented in the language. These two approaches are often presented as incompatible in German, and common forms of gender-conscious linguistic realizations of human reference are deemed irreconcilable with the rules of LS. However, there is a lack of empirical findings, especially on epicene nouns, which have one grammatical gender regardless of the referent's social gender (e.g., "die Lehrkraft"[subscript FEM] "the teaching person"). Based on a study in which users of easy-to-read language evaluated nouns for personal reference in terms of the subjective perception of intelligibility, comprehension, and referential effect, partly collecting individual preferences, the present paper offers empirically informed impulses for language practitioners striving for inclusive, applicable communication strategies, focusing on the high potential of epicenes as gender-inclusive person nouns.