Clavicular is a male to male transgender
On Clavicular's Gender Performativity
Given that I went viral on Twitter for my powerful take of Clavicular being a male-to-male transgender, I decided to expand it into a serious article.
The name Clavicular comes from clavicle which is the S-shaped bone that connects the sternum to the shoulder blade and determines, more than almost any other single skeletal feature, whether a man looks like a man. It is also, crucially, nearly impossible to significantly alter through training, drugs, or surgery. You cannot meaningfully widen your clavicles. You were born with them.
In looksmaxxing theology, the clavicle represents the outer limit of ascension, the structural constraint that defines the ceiling much like the ability of trans women to become pregnant, nearly impossible.
A man who names himself after his skeletal cage and then spends his entire adult life attempting to escape it through outside intervention is trans by default. A person in the process of transition from A to B.
The standard definition of transgenderism relies on rejecting the socially assigned binary, male or female and instead going for the idea that sex and gender exist on a spectrum. And if sex and gender operate as continuum rather than binaries, which is also the claim of trans ideologues, then transition is movement along the continuum can represent a form of transitioning, irrespective if the direction is towards greater masculinity or femininity.
Type 1 is the familiar case: crossing the binary. Male-to-female, female-to-male. Type 2 is what is called gender exaggeration: moving toward the extreme end of your existing sex or gender category. A man pursuing maximal masculinity through hormonal and surgical intervention.
This, by the way is the core thesis of a philosophy paper by Dan Demetriou who got fired from his University position for daring to publishing it.
Both are caused by body dysphoria, the distress of the person whose particular body instantiation does not match what they imagine their body should look like and so they need to transform it into a different, non-genetically determined version of themselves. That is how Braden Peters is in the process of becoming Clavicular.
Clavicular is chemically dependent on pharmaceutical sex hormones to maintain the phenotype he has chosen. His endogenous testosterone production has been suppressed. Much like regular trans people he cannot reproduce. MTF practitioners on estrogen become infertile. Clavicular, on chronic supraphysiological testosterone initiated in adolescence, has also become infertile. Both cases involve the sacrifice of reproductive function in service of a preferred bodily identity. From an evolutionary standpoint, these cases are structurally identical: the individual has permanently traded reproductive capacity for phenotypic congruence with a chosen identity.
Clavicular himself, in a moment of unusual honesty, acknowledged the parallel. “What I do is the opposite of like transgenders. So it’s like they’re like male to female, and I’d be doing like male to male.” He meant this as a dismissal. But it reads instead as an accurate self-description.
When his university confiscated his hormones, he called them “medication” which maintained his “hormonal stability.” Do you notice any parallels? This is the language of someone describing gender-affirming care. He is now dependent on it to maintain his persona, and when they’re off for a few days, just like trans women or trans-men reverting back to their biological sex, Clavicular’s muscles shrink and he starts to look like an average male.
Braden Peters and Clavicular are not the same person. Braden Peters was the kid who woke up two hours early to avoid his parents, sat in his car, counted his daily words, aimed for under fifty. He documented techniques for faking neurotypicality, mimicking the mannerisms of fictional characters, rehearsing stolen jokes, engineering every social interaction is what Judith Butler calls “performativity”.
Identity is not something you have, it is something you do: repeatedly, consistently, until the performance produces the effect of a stable self. There is no authentic inner Braden Peters waiting to be expressed. More like Braden Peters is becoming Clavicular. How is it different than a sissy slutson convinced xerself he is a woman after gooning to the idea of himself being a woman?
It’s a form of identity transformation, away from genetic, towards social construction. Away from something innate and real, into something false and demanding constant maintenance through affirmation. The mogging ritual is worth taking seriously here because it is genuinely the core sacrament of the looksmaxxing religion. As I said in my video analyzing Clavicular’s philosophy, mogging is not about attracting women, Clavicular said explicitly that getting girls has “lost its novelty.”
It is about enacting masculine superiority in front of witnesses. It is, in Butler’s terms, a performative act: something that doesn’t express a pre-existing identity but constitutes one through the act itself. The mog is not evidence that Clavicular is a Chad. The mog is how Clavicular becomes a Chad, over and over, in a process that is never finished because the identity is never secure. This is structurally identical to what trans activists call gender euphoria: the moment of performed identity that subjectively confirms, temporarily, that the transition is real.
Both require an audience. Both require repetition. Both arose out of body dysphoria. Neither is ever finally complete. And neither will ever be complete for they are built upon the rejection of their genetical code.
