cross-liver

See also: crossliver

English

Alternative forms

• crossliver

Etymology

From cross-live +‎ -er.

Noun

cross-liver (plural cross-livers)

1. (LGBTQ) A person who cross-lives.
   • 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.

   • 1998 February 11, Katheryn D'Medici, “Re: Close Calls - Comments?”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-12:

     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.

   • 1999 July 5, Jan, “Re: Rubber ckickens and other lawn ornaments”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[2] (Usenet):

     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.

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

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