Hey, it might work! By getting everyone to yell about the game instead.
So it’s a 100% hard no on any publisher being able to do this before the book is printed. It’s still a pretty hard no after - but it’s a 100% no for “in time to print the book”.
There are a lot of reasons, that basically boil down to two major policies: “notability” (ie, “should we have an article about this”) and “npov” (“neutral point of view”). The short version is “we don’t let someone with a financial stake write about a book that isn’t published yet.”
No, they certainly could not.
writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”
It’s a different kind of thing, for sure. But it does all eventually boil down to “there are and have always been more than two sex classes (and people often get real weird about denying it).”
We’ve also had other forms of gender/sex that have been extensively described as a “third sex”, such as monks, for example.
I'm reading a paper about American queer history called "The Fairy As An Intermediate Sex" and laughing at how much this maps to my own life experience. The notion that the West does not have a three-gender system has always been false.
No-one ever talks about how a major revival of monastic life would relieve the housing crisis, not to mention the reduction in emissions as fewer people would need to travel to work