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Left Hand of Darkness ass comment
Follow up Culture comment
I've had them queued up as books to read. What does Iain Bank's Culture series say about gender?
People have full reproductive control. That includes the ability to change sex at will, to control fertility, to pause pregnancies, even to get pregnant, change sex, and go through pregnancy as a man
Beyond what the other reply said, there are also examples of societies that have 3 genders - for example, the people of Azad in The Player of Games have male, female, and apex (I think they do have the tech to change gonads, but would not use them because their society is turbo-sexist. Also CW for all sorts of gender stuff in the Culture series, it's NOT all sunshines and rainbows for the people outside the Culture itself).
Scifi Magic transing is central to the plot of Excession(1997)
From Player of Games: