Gender Non-Conformance and Religion

[mr seamstress]

I wore skirts occasionally at the church we used to go to. I had several positive comments and checked with a number of people that they were ok with it. Then 1 of the leaders took me aside and asked me to think about Deut 22:5 which I did and told him it was relevant.

If only the churches would teach the full truth what the bible is saying. During the Biblical times man and woman wore same clothing. Need to read when Jesus complain about men wearing long robes.
Baptist churches are bad about making it sound like man and woman wore different clothing, but there are others out there just like them. Even Baptist churches would quote parts of the Bible and turn around and say we do not believe this what the Bible teaches. You can spend hours listen to a sermon and have that same person says we the Baptist do not recognize this being part of our faith.
In Genesis God made same garments for Adam and Eve. And God didn't make Adam any pants. When Jesus was born, Mary wasn't instructed how to cloth Jesus so he wouldn't look like a girl. But then there is nothing in the Bible says one cannot same dress one boy or girl. How can it be a sin for a man to wear dress as grownup but not as a child? Why isn't it a sin for parents to put dresses on boys? Bottom line every parent must have sin when clothing their infants for all of them since beginning of time have dress their infants in same clothing regardless of sex. There was never a boy's cloth diaper or girl's diaper. Diapers was folded and worn the same regardless of infant sex.

https://biblicalpathway.com/5-symbols-o ... cal-robes/

https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/MRK.12.38-40

Just remind everyone you are just dressing just like when you was an infant, there wasn't any barriers how parents dress their infants.
Also remind them of the 5th Commandment, Honor Thy Parents. The best honor in my opinion is wearing dresses and skirts and tell everyone you are obeying the 5th Commandment. You wore same thing as girls wore when you was infant. Wear same thing under the 5th Commandment and Honor Thy Parents for dressing you that way. Anybody throws Deuteronomy in my face and I throw the 5th commandment back at them and they choose to clothes their infants exactly the same regardless of their sex.

[sellek]

I am not a regular Church goer but I do attend some services especially when they put on an 'Iona' Celtic service. Most people at Church, men and women wear trousers, indeed I think sometimes I may have been the only person at Church wearing a skirt. When most people at Church apart from me and maybe one or two others are wearing trousers what constitutes men's clothing and what constitutes women's clothing?
If I am at an 'Iona' celtic service then I guess we can look back to the type of clothing worn by celtic men, which sort of takes us back to skirt type garments which were forerunners of modern kilts. And so I feel I feel OK about wearing a skirt to Church and nobody seems at all concerned.

I am guessing it is mentioned in the bible because there were issues about people dressing in certain ways for nefarious purposes and it is ultimately these purposes that are the problem not the clothing itself.