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You seem to not be understanding so let me break it down.
Playable - you can play as this
You have a list of playable character options in the character creation section of the phb, and additional ones provided by sourcebooks.
If it isn't a playable character option, it isn't playable. RAW. It isn't an option. It isn't playable.
RAW. Let me get that through your head.
"Rules as written"
Not RAI.
Not "rules as intended"
RAW.
Written.
No, you're not understanding. There is nothing saying, RAW, you can't play as a gnoll. The RAW is that you can't choose a gnoll as your race - but in the case of being polymorphed into one, you didn't choose that, you were changed into one. And the RAW for that is to assume that everything works the same as before, barring what is explicitly said in the spell for that transformation. And once again, nothing in the spell says you stop playing as a character who is transformed, regardless of if the transformation is "playable" or not. There is not even a "playable" tag for anything, anywhere, in RAW.