Gender Friction

Gender Friction is a genderfluid term to describe the level of friction experienced when switching between genders. This gender quality primarily occurs for people who are unigenderfluid (experiencing just one gender at a time) but can also occur in multigenderfluid or unigenderfluidflux individuals.

A gender with a high level of gender friction is called gender-frictive. A gender with a low level of gender friction is called gender-static.

A high level of gender friction has been described as:


 * the feeling when an aircraft lands and/or takes off.
 * two things that are stuck together being pulled apart (the individual from the original gender) with strands of glue still connecting it.
 * the gender is reluctant to "let go" and "holds on tightly" for a moment before "releasing." (in this experience of gender friction one might see this as a gender-spike).
 * the gender resists changing, and this is felt in the form of friction/ragged edges.
 * the new and old gender struggling for control.
 * the unseating of a gender the individual has grown used to, by the new gender.
 * a very fast, very raw, intense switching of genders.

A low level of gender friction indicates a smooth transition between genders, and can involve the follow experiences/feelings:


 * the old gender willingly relinquishing control for the new gender.


 * not noticing a gender switch until it has already occurred.
 * the melding of two genders, feeling indistinct from one another, during the change, instead of at odds.
 * genders being parallel as they move past each other.
 * a quiet/soft/slow gender switch.

History
This term was coined by FANDOM wiki user Nemosexual on the 16th of August, 2021, after a discussion in a non-binary discord group the previous day. This page is the original coining page and source.