Xaku

Digital Extremes’ Second Attempt at a Transgender Warframe

Screen Capture from Warframe Loading Screen and processed using Adobe Spark

Digital Extremes warframe designs have been some interesting creations over the years. Many follow the traditional sex assignment of male or female.

Some may be more beefy than others. A few have more booty. Or they may look like a child, such as Nezha. But not having a distinct sexual orientation is something not done.

Equinox combined form from wiki

I would argue that the first attempt at anything close to a “transgender” warframe by Digital Extremes would have to be Equinox. This warframe was introduced with update 17.0 on July 31st, 2015.

The Equinox warframe was patterned after the duality of day and night. This warframe requires the construction of both a male (day) and female (night) warframe at the same time. It was as close to transgender as they were willing to go at the time.

Equinox does have a combined form, but it’s unusable in combat.

According to the Wiki Trivia-

Because Xaku is an amalgamation of three different Warframes, Xaku is the first Warframe to not have a distinct sex, being addressed by DE as “they/them”.