cross-live

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To 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
   • 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...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...