Meaning of cross-live | Babel Free

Definitions

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

intransitive

Examples

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

“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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

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