This is just another thing that I have noticed.
In the Bible, it says that thou shall not wear what pertaineth to a man and vice versa.
My question (without giving my religious preference) is that, if a woman walks into a department store and purchases a pare of woman's pants or jeans of sometime, is she breaking the word? Is she really disobeying the Lord? I mean she's NOT wearing guys clothes, or anything that pertains to a man?
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Quick and easy answer - if you walked into the bathroom with the "pants" sign, would you get kicked out of the department store?
Long answer - Deuteronomy never tells us what "men's clothes" and "women's clothes" are - and they didn't all wear robes! Historically speaking, there was a difference between male/female garments, even though we are not exactly sure what that difference is (for a good look at Asiatic clothing during the time of Abraham from an Egyptian perspective, visit this link: http://prophetess.lstc.edu/~rklein/images/benihsan.jpg) We are left to our societal norms to figure out what we should wear.
Our society is changing, but the fact of the matter is that it hasn't changed yet. When our society does change, if it hasn't developed a very distinct clothing pattern between the sexes, then our society is in the wrong. One day our society may change and men will be the ones wearing the dresses (sort of like "tights"), but until our society makes that shift, we are bound by the societal norms of male/female clothing.
What are those norms? There are two ways to figure this out. 1) Look at what the transgender people call male/female clothing; 2) look for societal symbols that would show the difference.
I have a transgender relative, and he wears dresses. I can also look at a bathroom sign and see a symbol representing a man and a woman, yet I never get them confused.
I am not sure I would call this a "miniscual Christian disagreement." :)
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