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cross-live

verb

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick”
  2. inherited from *libjaną✻ — “to live”
  3. inherited from *libbjan✻
  4. inherited from libban
  5. inherited from lefe
  6. formed as cross-live — “cross- + live”

Definitions

  1. To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was…

    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!
    • [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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA