LinkW hen her husband told her he was a cross-dresser, Joanne Nemecek recalls feeling shocked, horrified, even sick.
A lifelong Christian and daily Scripture reader, Joanne immediately thought of Deuteronomy 22:5: "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God."
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Joanne came to believe Deuteronomy's prohibition is taken out of cultural context, that it was about "temple prostitutes."
At first, Joanne allowed her husband only to dress as a woman at home. "I wanted home to be a safe haven for him," she says. She believed his gender struggle was a secret they could keep.
