Discuss Genly Ai's struggle to see Gethenians as they see themselves. What do Genly Ai's attitudes reveal about the world he comes from?

The type of world Genly lives in is a very gender oriented society: people are born with a certain gender and cannot change their gender. It is a society very much like our own, where gender usually determines how people should look, act, dress, and work. However, in Gethen the people there have not specifically gendered; in fact they usually do not have one present, unless one is in kemmer with another individual, in which case the individuals will become male or female based on what the other kemmering ends up being. Because of this absence of gender, gender discrimination is not a thing in this society, as there are no genders to discriminate against, and there is no involuntary sexual intercourse or rape as individuals must be in kemmer to do that sort of thing. For Genly, this type of behavior seems very odd, especially for those he perceives to have masculine features like King Argaven, who doesn't seem very manly and may even appear to be a bit feminine. With us being from a similar world to Genly's, imagining what a gender less person would look like is very hard. Not only that, the fact of someone being able to give someone their child then have one themselves seems crazy for any of us. It's especially amusing to see when the Gethenians see Genly as a pervert because of his state of "permanent kemmer" and constantly producing dominant male hormones, causing other individuals in kemmer to become female. If anyone here was desperate for a partner, they may find one on this planet a bit more easily. Maybe.