Male homosexuality is a crime under Noahide Law, lesbianism however is not (here). Here we learn that transvestism is not a crime for non-Jews (but possible for Jews) but is considered "revolting" to god
Cross-Dressing "A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man; neither shall a man put on a woman's garment.” Humanity isn't unisexual: the conventional outward distinguishing marks between women and men shouldn't be blurred.
Human beings are the only earthly beings to make and wear clothes — or need to. So fashion is a uniquely human thing that can be used either in the service of sexual modesty or immodesty. Cross-dressing is modesty's opposite: the look that's adopted is a look that's erotically charged. "The interchange of dress begets lust and leads to immorality." It blurs modesty's distinction between the masculine and feminine by offering up the cross-dresser — literally, the transvestite — as a new erotic ideal: a woman with the sexual availability and openness of a man, or a man with the feminine allure of a woman. It promotes — at least it partakes — of the extreme gender-confusion of homosexuality.
The licentious age early. — Talmud
Naturally, fashions change, and every society has its own styles. Adornments like long hair, earrings, kilts or pants or neckties don't belong intrinsically to any one sex. But when the members of a community associate any such adornment with one particular sex, those who choose to wear the fashions of the other sex cross an important moral line.
God makes cross-dressing a crime, though not a capital crime, for Israel. Other peoples may approach the problem differently. Because it isn't one of the minimal prohibitions of the Univeral Law, they have no obligation to make such a prohibition part of their law. Yet they should be aware that, in the Lord's words, "whoever" commits this act, of cross-dressing, or transvestism, "is revolting to God." (Dallen, 2003, pp. 168-169)
SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.
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