I read this book... oh gosh, 25 years ago now! So it was rather more important to my development of sex/gender/sexuality thoughts than if I'd read it this year. :)

*nods* to the male words and pronouns. Le Guin herself regretted that a lot and in a couple of short stories set in the same world, she used the female pronoun and male words (e.g., king, etc.) I do think that got rather more of the non-masculinity across.