Hazbin headcanon: Xenogender Sinners (& Saints)
"A what now?"
Xenogender (xeno - strange, other, foreign) is a type of gender identity that can't be defined in relation to the usual human gender spectrum (masculine feminine, non-binary, agender, demiboy, demigirl...) and instead uses non-human categorizations.
Xenogender identities are said to fill a “lexical gap” or the lack of words in the English language to define one’s particular experience with gender. Xenogenders fill these gaps by comparing their gender identities to certain concepts – pre-existing or imaginary. It should be noted that xenogenders don’t necessarily identify with specific objects, but use these things as metaphors to describe their relationship with gender. - LGBTQ Nation
Examples of real xenogender categorizations:
Identifying with an abstract concept such as freedom, fluidity, more than you would identify with the concepts of "masculinity" or "femininity"
Feeling more comfortable with thinking of yourself as someone "alien" or "robot-like"
Feeling like your gender identity is endless and infinite
Feeling absolutely genderless. Some refer to their gender as a "void" (voidgender)
Identifying your gender as something as fuzzy and indiscernable as TV static (staticgender)
While extremely uncommon in our world, people on the xenogender identity spectrum are definitely more represented in the Hazbin Hotel universe!
After all, most souls are reincarnated in bodies that are no longer human or human-like in appearance and functionality and the gender they were assigned at birth as humans or the one they chose in life might be entirely impossible to guess. It also seems like it's a common practice to reinvent your entire identity in your afterlife, going by a new name and barely mentioning the person you used to be.
Wouldn't it be fitting for non-human Sinners to identify with non-human gender qualifiers? Occasionally, as a way to temporarily cope with their dysmorphia? Or fully embracing them and taking pride in them?
Who says "radio demon" can't be a gender?
machine-like Sinners identifying with the concept of "robotgender"
Sinners with bodies made of fire, water, smoke, wood... finding new ways to express themselves with the limitations but also the new opportunities their bodies provide
Animal-like Sinners who spent more time in their demonic bodies than they spend in their human bodies and forgot what type of human gender presentation they used to like
Vox using it/its pronouns to cope with its feelings/when it needs to give up control/ (I'm a machine today, I don't need to think or feel)
Thoughts?