I am sure futuransky has better suggestions! I mean, Left Hand of Darkness is a classic (as my wrists will soon suggest).
I think Ammonite by Nicola Griffith has some gender variance in it--it's basically a planet of all women, and highlights that that means a spectrum of people.
There's a trans woman who is a protagonist of The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum, which is a book I liked! There's also an important secondary character who is intersex.
Speaking of intersex, Shadow Man by Melissa Scott is dated but I think it's still interesting! It's from the 90s and basically extrapolates Anne Fausto-Sterling and Cheryl Chase's back-and-forth on what it would mean for a society to recognize five sexes instead of two. It flips that back in some interesting ways, and I think Warreven's gender is CERTAINLY worth discussing.
Kelley Eskridge's short stories featuring the gender-unspecified character Mars would definitely be good to look at--I think they're in her collection Dangerous Space.
I really want someone to read Triptych and discuss it with meeee. It's the poly time travel space aliens one, and the aliens kind of shrug and take on whatever human gender. Interesting triad dynamics there. Not sure how useful that would be to your panel, though.
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I think Ammonite by Nicola Griffith has some gender variance in it--it's basically a planet of all women, and highlights that that means a spectrum of people.
There's a trans woman who is a protagonist of The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum, which is a book I liked! There's also an important secondary character who is intersex.
Speaking of intersex, Shadow Man by Melissa Scott is dated but I think it's still interesting! It's from the 90s and basically extrapolates Anne Fausto-Sterling and Cheryl Chase's back-and-forth on what it would mean for a society to recognize five sexes instead of two. It flips that back in some interesting ways, and I think Warreven's gender is CERTAINLY worth discussing.
Kelley Eskridge's short stories featuring the gender-unspecified character Mars would definitely be good to look at--I think they're in her collection Dangerous Space.
I really want someone to read Triptych and discuss it with meeee. It's the poly time travel space aliens one, and the aliens kind of shrug and take on whatever human gender. Interesting triad dynamics there. Not sure how useful that would be to your panel, though.