'''Gender Friction''' (also known as '''the magnitude of gender friction''') is a [[genderfluid]] term to describe the level of friction experienced when switching between genders. This gender quality primarily occurs for peopleindividuals 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-staticreceptive]].
Gender Friction is not an identity, as it describes the amount of friction experienced when switching genders but does not specify what amount. It is a qualitative measurement tool.
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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 [[Genderspike|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.
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== History ==
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