I mean, the fact that his/her father disappearing possibly played a role in it, and yes it did feel like a weird excuse to mark the game having a lgbtq rep, a sad excuse of a rep honestly, its more like it was sudden with no more time to show of her personality nor focus to check in on her development, so in a sense, Clawdi was a bucket list rather then a rep, would have been better if her father wasn't a victim (instead a stranger) more screen time on pincer, and how clawdi is now, that's what I call a rep, but that's just wishful thinking.
making it seem that in order for someone to be trans, they gotta have their parents removed from the equation, sends a bad message as a rep, if people actually think clawdi is considered a rep, then NO FUCKING WONDER THE "DAD GOES TO BUY MILK AT 3 AM (GONE WRONG) (GONE MISSING)" WAS POPULAR.
BUT THEN AGAAAAAAAAAAAIN, crabs are able to change their gender by the fly, it's called protandry, so in actuality clawdi isn't transgender, shes bigender, or is it, they bigender. up to the developers to decided