cross-live

present singular third person cross-lives · participle present cross-living · participle past cross-lived · past cross-lived · alternative crosslive

1. intransitiveTo live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.

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

   1996, Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, New York, NY: Masquerade Books, →ISBN, page 332

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   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.

   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

   [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.

   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

   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.

   2009 July 22, Nicole Massey, “Re: So...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 13 Nov 2021