Cross-live

verb

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Definitions

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

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

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

Etymology

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

Related phrases

cross-liver

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