Slapping the Beastman label on any of Eorzea's indigenous tribes, let alone the Steppe Au Ra is, was in effect the same as British settlers calling the Natives of America "Savages." Nothing more than a thinly veiled publicity ploy to make the Amal'jaa an other so they could excuse expansionist aggression and tax the trade routes for protection.

Their biology matters for very little on a world like Hydaelyn. If it can think, if it can speak, and process emotions then it is a spoken. "Humanity" and "Beastmen" false labels that by rights should not exist but do anyway because lalafell are assholes.