Status Updates From The Cage of Zeus

Considering abandoning this book

I feel like this is going to be a five-star read for me!

Structure reminds me of a golden age SF book. Lots of explanation of high concept ideas.

So it will be a metaphor for how to deal with trans issues, perhaps?

Seems like this is going to be a pretty dense book until I get my feet under me.

Oh good, being intersex, having both male and female reproductive organs and registering as intersex is forbidden and basically illegal in this society. Whhhyyyy???

I get that this is the point of the book, why the Rounds have their own society on a station orbiting Jupiter. But what exactly is this book saying about transgender people and intersex people who currently exist? It's ridiculous. I can't stand it.

"a transgender" and "fluid transgenders" yeah yeah, no that's great, awesome and not incorrect terminology at all *eye roll*

All this talk about people "switching sexes on a whim," and changing "their gender like they change their clothes" is just kinda gross. That's not what being transgender is.

There's a conflation of sex and gender here and maybe a misunderstanding of the two. Lost in translation? Idk.