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Maverique was invented out of nowhere in June 2014 by a single YouTuber — Vivian Wagner — and presented as an "autonomous gender category." A creed in real-time: one person utters a word and the catalog grows with one identity. It is a textbook example of a dogma that multiplies itself — and that also justifies mastectomies as soon as someone signs up under such a label.

Definition according to proponents

A gender that stands apart from masculinity, femininity, or a combination thereof — "autonomous". Not empty (like agender), not neutral (like neutrois), but something of its own. What exactly that "something" is is never specified. The label names itself and is thereby complete.

Origin: a YouTube video, June 2014

One YouTube video on June 14, 2014. Since then adopted in online glossaries, LGBTA Wiki, and here and there in educational material. No clinical literature, no empirical description, no mention in DSM-5-TR, ICD-11, or WPATH SOC8. Part of the broader explosive proliferation since 2010 .

The Cass Review (2024) explicitly identifies the proliferation of such terms as an impediment to clinical diagnosis. Biggs (2022) has documented that the growth of such identity catalogs since 2010 is demographically linked to online cohorts, not to an independent clinical phenomenon — see also Littman/ROGD .

Critique: ontology by statement

The case is informative. One person articulates a new category; the category is adopted as if it had always existed. This is possible because the concept of gender identity takes self-reporting as its sole source — it suffices for someone to identify as such. There is no measurable marker that distinguishes maverique from anything else; only the utterance.

Maverique shows how the identity catalogue produces itself. Anyone devising a new label tomorrow can rely on exactly the same precedent. The construct is self-replicating and unfalsifiable — a textbook example of circular reasoning . Kathleen Stock (2021) calls this "ontology by stipulation": a term acquires its reality through enthusiastic use, not through an independent referent. Helen Joyce (2021) points out the legal consequences — English-speaking courts, schools, and NGOs have adopted such terms without validation. Anyone who labels the maneuver as problematic is silenced and dismissed as a "hater."

Levine (2022) and Hruz (2020) point out the clinical consequence: a diagnostic system that allows any newly devised self-labeling offers no workable basis for evidence-based care. Without reproducible diagnostic criteria, any intervention is arbitrary.

Damage: interventions for a one-man fabrication

Maverique applicants rarely appear in clinical records; they are usually categorized as non-binary and gain access to hormones or mastectomy through that route. Research into outcomes specific to this subgroup is lacking. The Cass Review recommends not hiding such subgroups under umbrella labels but studying them separately — otherwise, the evidence base remains permanently weak. Transition does not cure — see detransition research and regret research .

Related identities

• Aporagender — virtually identical claim, also 2014.

• Xenogender — broader "different kind" umbrella.

• Non-binary — umbrella.

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