If this wasn't possible then why did they show the concept art for it and then put an actual vote to the player base for what type of race should come next. Yes it probably isn't going to look exactly like that, but it doesn't mean they can't produce some sort of race more closer to beast than human. At present SE idea of a new race is stick on some features that could easily be added to any race during character customisation.
If headpiece is the main problem then make the headpiece permanently invisible for that race by disabling the on/off toggle.
