Gender-frictive (also known as gender-coarse, gender-sticky and gender-stiff) is a genderfluid gender that experiences a high level of gender friction. Someone who is gender-frictive may also be gender-receptive, if they also can experience low levels of gender friction when switching genders. It describes how one's gender(s) behave, rather than what they are composed of.
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.
Experiences gender-frictives may have include:
- sudden heavy gender dysphoria.
- strong gender euphoria experiences that come from very "hard edges" of genders.
- queasy/uncomfortable gender feelings during gender changes.
- strong alignments with gender, almost tangible genders.
History
This term was coined by FANDOM wiki user Nemosexual on the Gender Friction page on the 16th of August, 2021.