This is not the only place I could make an RvB reference with DS9 - I reckon there's a "you ever wonder why we're here" with Starfleet's presence on DS9 🤔
He probably does, he uses he/him pronouns, but his race simply doesn't have gender, being amorphous blobs and all
Liberal myth that pigs exist for the sake of justice
He was placed in his role by a literal actual fascist general, and only stayed there because his sense of actual justice wouldn't let him let someone else take the role and implement the Cardassian "justice" ("line up 5 random Bajorans and execute them"). This is established very early on and very explicitly. I don't like the police institution either, but Odo is not the right tree to be barking up, and definitely not the right way to say "the Star Trek future is creepy" (He doesn't even work for Starfleet, they just kept him on because he was well-liked in the DS9 community)
Odo is such a prude but imagine how much fun you could have with a slutty shape-shifter that was adept at taking any form. Limitless exploration of kinks!
Odo is such a weirdo square. He could be literally anything he wants, and he has an opportunity to go join a society of all-powerful living gods, but he's a little too busy making sure Quark doesn't import a case of Romulan ale to participate in anything else.
I vaguely remember Sarge commanding the team to put someone down who was perfectly fine, "there's no saving the poor bastard". Could go well with Janeway and Tuvix.