" And I saw then again, and I saw for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, an acceptance of him as he was. Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)