cross-liver

noun

A person who cross-lives.

Meanings

nouncross-liver (plural cross-livers)

plural cross-livers · alternative crossliver

  1. A person who cross-lives.

    So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, […]

    2005 February 13, cat-o-matic, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)
    3 more examples

    1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Maybe the stigma comes from being either a TV or a TS—but there is a middle ground that I've never considered...what Georgia calls a "cross-liver." Someone who takes hormones & lives their desired gender role, but who have not necessarily made a decision on having surgery.

    And that doesn't invalidate or lessen the T*ness of the person. Some people believe that being afull^([sic]) time crossliver makes them somehow more than a person who dresses up on the odd Tuesday night.

    1998 February 11, Katheryn D'Medici, “Re: Close Calls - Comments?”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet), retrieved 12 Nov 2021

    My point was that if someone got m2f SRS and continued to 'present' as a crossliver rather than as an 'f', you would have fewer objections to 'her' as a person than to someone who wished to disappear into 'cisgendered' society.

    1999 July 5, Jan, “Re: Rubber ckickens and other lawn ornaments”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)

Origin

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“cross-liver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-liver. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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