Sorry to barge in on your ongoing discussion about gender norms and such, but honestly they've stated clearly why things are That Way with Viera, quite distinctly.
As its been said, our concepts of gender identity and expectations don't apply to the Viera race. In lore snippets (and you'll have to forgive me for not having the sources, its late at night and I'm supposed to be sleeping) its stated quite clearly that biology takes over for Viera when they hit puberty. The males are, for lack of a better way to summarize, overcome with testosterone, and they *want* to leave the village. They become hot-blooded, territorial and hit with intense wanderlust. If they truly are genderless as children, i assume that could be the consequence of suddenly having male anatomy sprout off of you like an overnight dandelion.
There's no need for thoughts like gender identity in their culture. Now as time passes, since they are incredibly long-lived, maybe stuff like that pops up, who knows. And as its been stated, people will do what they want in their headcanons. Seeing as how male and female Viera don't ever meet up until its time to pick up the kids and make new ones, they pretty much live outside of our gender expectations to begin with. Who knows, lore says they're mostly loners but they could have their own society that lives the non-binary dream. You must have the proper biology, whether we agree with that or not, to make more Viera, no matter what their identity is outside of those moments.
I'm all for progression irl, but why must irl debates be forced into a fantasy game? If you want to have your character experience dysphoria, more power to you, but I find it incredibly sad to see people feeling the need to bring things into a place where they're supposed to be letting go and being who they want to be.
And not to be that person, but wasn't this a thread about naming conventions? Lol I'm not bothered, but I noticed the original track is waaaaaay over there -points in the distance-

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