LHoD

Genly Ai doesn't know how to feel about the Gethenians intersex nature and takes time for him to adapt to it. He doesn't really see how they could be gender less, and doesn't know really what to think of it. His misperception of seeing them as gender less eventually he comes around and starts adapting to what he's seeing the Gethenians. The Gethenians aren't really a gender free society, I guess they're more of an intersex society. He mentions that he can't help but see the Gethenians as male, but in some circumstances he sees them as feminine. Genly also mentions in the book how he doesn't remember what it's like to be around a woman. The Gethenians don't see each other as male or female until kemmer. I think that is Genly's biggest struggle about the Gethenians until he starts getting used to being "gender free". It's a struggle for him in the beginning to really not see them as male or female since they do consider themselves as not having a gender. He realizes that the world he comes from isn't like the Gethenians since he is used to seeing someone as male or female, and for him to not be around other women or men is kind of different for him.