Stop Denigrating Homosexuals and Transgenders

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 20 March 2023 Muslims denigrating those Muslims who've a homosexual orientation and are transgenders is sheer ignorance and lack of education. Comparing homosexuality to paedophilia is even greater stupidity. They should know that while the former is just a genetic sexual orientation, the latter is an outright vice and an unmitigated criminal offence. Paedophiles are sexual predators. But homosexuals are not a threat to society. Homosexuality or lesbianism is not a sexual disorder or neurosis. It's an ingrained alternative (sexual) choice some are born with. Homosexuals and transgenders have no control over their psycho-physical sexual orientations. They've been made like that by nature or freak genetic mutations. That said, homophobia is not just limited to the Muslim society. Followers of all faiths have a 'queer' (pun intended) attitude towards homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. While Hindus were pretty cool about homosexuality till the 10th century and the early Zoroastrians accepted it without much fuss, things slowly began to change with the advent of Semitic morality. I don't want to repeat the same things. But it must be mentioned that the general attitude towards these 'special people' is still not very welcoming. They're pariah and social outlaws. C G Jung, he had queer leanings, wrote a long essay, Understanding Homosexuality. He opined that humans were predominantly made heterosexuals for the purpose and perpetuation of progeny. Since heterosexuals always outnumbered homosexuals and the early humans had been seeing only the straights, those with a different sexual choice and proclivity got snowed under the avalanche of heterosexuals, leading our ancestors to believe that only heterosexuality was natural and homosexuality was unnatural. Alfred Russel Wallace's ' Factor of overwhelming majority, ' explains how majoritarian heterosexuals almost decimated homosexuals over a period of time. It's worthwhile to mention that Wallace independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection. His name is bracketed with Charles Darwin for the Theory of Evolution. Homosexuals suffered an evolutionary setback even in the prehistoric and pre-religion era and when religions came into existence, they simply tried to wipe out those with same-sex inclinations because of their homophobic god's perceived atavistic hatred for the queers. It's, therefore, time for all of us to treat the homosexuals, queers, gays, bi and transgenders as humans and stop looking at them through the prism of religions and existing social mores and morality. We've had enough of religion-induced fake morality that professes hatred and discrimination among humans. ------ A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/denigrating-homosexuals-transgenders/d/129355 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism