Trouser tyranny is a belief that trousers are exclusively for men, or that garments with a skirt are exclusively for women.
Some fundamentalist Christians believe that it violates God's law for a woman to wear trousers or for a man not to wear trousers. They support their position with scripture, but their interpretation of Deuteronomy 22:5 and other scriptures misses the mark.
The website Bravehearts in Kilts Against Trouser Tyranny distinguished four motivations for either men or people assigned male at birth to wear a skirt:
The Bravehearts movement cannot fight all battles at once. To challenge the core assumption that skirts are necessarily feminine, they wear styles already accepted elsewhere for men's wear. This selectively targets fundamentalists' misuse of scripture and other cases of institutional intolerance that they consider counterproductive to men's comfort. Bravehearts support trans rights but consider trans rights outside the movement's scope.
Categories: Clothing