Well, there's some in both! Especially love the take from Ada Palmer, what happens in a society where they don't use gender... But the narrator knows they're writing for us "back in time" so they try to use gendered terminology based on what they assume we base gender on today.

I'm not sure what WIW means (I _did_ Google it, got "walk in wardrobe")... Anywho. The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer is 🤌🏼 also love PC Hodgell's God Stalk and subsequent 11 books.

I had it as a baby in the US too! People expect they'll see me hacking up blood when they learn that tidbit of personal history.