cross-live

English

Alternative forms

• crosslive

Etymology

From cross- +‎ live. Possibly modelled after cross-dress.

Verb

cross-live (third-person singular simple present cross-lives, present participle cross-living, simple past and past participle cross-lived)

1. (intransitive, LGBTQ) To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.
   • 1996, Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, New York, NY: Masquerade Books, →ISBN, page 332:

     For example, there apparently is a clinic in Canada that makes people crosslive for a year before giving them hormones!

   • 2002, Billy E. Jones, Marjorie J. Hill, editors, Mental Health Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities (Review of Psychiatry; 21), Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:

     Although some of these subjects were lesbians inclined to cross-dress and to cross-live in order to cope with social prohibition of woman-to-woman sexual relationships, it is likely that at least some male-identified subjects who were biologically born as female had come to realize a psychological transgender male identity.

   • 2005, Liz Winfeld, Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, London: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page unknown:

     [Transgenderists] will probably, although not necessarily, cross-live (see next section) and/or take part in hormonal therapies that would cause certain sex characteristic changes.

   • 2009 July 22, Nicole Massey, “Re: So...”, in alt.support.srs‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-13:

     I also don't consider Transgenderists to be a different creature from a Transsexual -- I consider the two to be two points on a spectrum. Some people can get by with crossliving, while others need to take further steps.

Derived terms

• cross-liver