What's in a name...
One part of the DotV rewrite effort is to clarify some of the nomenclature.

'Gylarian' is neither the name of the race, nor the name of the home planet. Used in reference to the main character of the Dragon_of_the_Valkyr story, the term is a race-specific label indicating an immature or juvenile member of the species. A cogent paradigm is that 'gylarian' relates to its own race, in the same manner as 'calf' relates to cattle (bovine).

As addressed in the story so far (that is to say, in the already published works), they are neither male, nor female, and not hermaphroditic. A Gylarian is a biogenetic construct - an artificial lifeform, made tractable by being devoid of sexuality.

Writing from the POV of a gender-less character in a gender-orientated language has been a point of challenge ever since the character's inception. Over the years, many rewrites have been done and discarded in a painstaking evolution to develop a satisfactory way to deal with a main character for whom the proper personal pronoun is, technically, "it".

To look at the history of the race and the linguistic development of the term:
The story starts a long time ago, in a galaxy not our own. In the beginning, there was a biogenetic development program called "GY-x". The program was established and directed by the Ancient Lords (a small group of beings from our galaxy -but that's another story). The primary goal of the program was to produce a slave-race whose bodies would be harvested and used by the overseers as replacements for their own. "LARI" was the designation assigned to one particularly promising project. The wyvern-like creatures (a draconic pterosaur) produced by said project were therefore called "GY-LARI-AN".
In the language of the dragons, the term "Gylarian" became emblematic of their time in captivity and equivalent to the terrestrial english word "nigger".
When judged by its own goals and criteria, the GY-x program was a failure. The objectives were not met and the Ancient Lords died off. Once freed from the rule of the ancients, the surviving specimens managed to continue the species. Ultimately, and in conjunction with another former slave race, a way was developed to transcend the initial design. As the dragons moved into their post-slavery epoch, the old name continued in use as meaning "an immature individual whose gender is still unformed and indeterminate", and/or "an incompetent individual who needs oversight and guidance".

With transcendence and maturity, the physiognomy changes and the old designation ceases to apply. This distinction is reflected in the story dynamics. At the beginning of the "Dragon of the Valkyr", Ryanon is a Gylarian -only a few years old (little more than a hatchling), and a bit of a klutz. The clutch / brood of hatchlings on the ship being not so much passengers -but rather, a part of the cargo.

Regarding semantics and idiom of the term: Since a Gylarian is by definition an immature and incomplete being, use of the term in reference to an adult of the species (or a member of a congenital species, such as a human) carries a derogatory connotation. To call, label, or ascribe any such person, place, or thing as "gylarian" would be to infer said object to be undeveloped, incomplete, defective, or incompetent.

DRAGON OF THE VALKYR    [available from specialty comic shops and Sundreams and Myths]
First Book of the Valkyr. A story from the Valkyr Web, co-created by Steve Simshauser and Dan Mickle.
Written by Steve Simshauser. Artwork by Jim Mravec. Published by RAK Comics Group / RAK Graphics.

The story of Ryanon: a traveler of the stars, a non-human sentient, marooned on primitive world.
Dark secrets, cults, and hidden agendas interweave in this tale which ultimately explores a bond that transcends death.
   [to befriend the dragon - to become the dragon]