one of the weird things i noticed watching the phantom menace yesterday is that when he first meets and fights darth maul, qui-gon and obi-wan both use it/its pronouns for maul. not sure what was going on there
the simplest explanation is the filmmakers want you conceive of maul as not-quite-human, some sort of demonic entity, being as he is an evil space wizard. the funnier answer is that the force gives jedi the ability to perceive people's pronouns and maul has some boydyke shit going on
Maul had some fun gender shit going on beneath the surface but it didn't get to figure it out after thinking nothing but how much it wants to kill Kenobi for 34 straight years
enbies will literally try to get homoerotic revenge on the man who cut it in half instead of thinking about its gender