Gendersolid or Genderfrozen is a term for when a usually genderfluid, genderflux or fluidflux person's gender becomes "solid" or "frozen" for a longer period of time due to external factors, which include, but are not limited to:
- Visiting their unaccepting family and becoming "frozen" in their assigned gender at birth
- Having an abrosexual partner and becoming "solid" in a gender their partner may prefer at a certain time
- PTSD or traumatizing events
This term is applicable to both people who can control how their gender changes and to people who can't. The experience may or may not be influenced by a person's mood.
Gendersolid or genderfrozen do not usually refer to an own gender identity, but rather as a modifier to ones gender, or to describe a certain event or occurence, for example: "My teacher refused to acknowledge that transgender people truly feel the way they do, and I just felt myself becoming gendersolid."
Gendersolid may also be humorously used for people who are not genderfluid, so long as it is not insulting.
History
Gendersolid, or genderfrozen, was coined by Wiki user WasabiBuns on June 20th, 2021.
It originated from a conversation on the LGBTQA+ Wiki Discord server on June 17th, 2021, where a user humorously asked several genderfluid people at what temperature their gender would become "gender solid" or "gender gas". This referred to a genderfluid person's gender being a "gender liquid" in a funny and non-insulting, non-invalidating way.
WasabiBuns later decided to give both gendersolid and gendergas an actual meaning related to faer own experience with faer genderfluidity.