Generally speaking, the present disclosure provides various embodiments of improved CMOS input stage circuits and related methods to maintain a near constant transconductance (gm) in a voltage region surrounding a cross-over voltage (Vcross) boundary between a low common-mode voltage (CMV) region and a high CMV region. Unlike conventional CMOS input stage circuits, the CMOS input stage circuit described herein uses a current steering circuit to steer the tail current between the complementary input pairs, and a current stealing circuit to reduce a current supplied to the complementary input pairs when the CMV is close to a cross-over voltage (Vcross).