Equal Grounds

Homosexuality
Are we handling the problem correctly

(this was my response to the discussion on Equal Grounds (NGO) conducting workshops in kathankuddy)

Human Sexuality involves

Sex Identity
Sex Role
Sexual Orientation

Sex Identity consists of:
1. Identity due to external body organs (like penis for males)
2. Social or Legal Identity - By giving a female name we identify person as female (Social) or in birth certificate it is recorded as male or female (legal)
3. Psychological where a person thinks he is male or female children develop this at the age of 3 years

Sex Role
Is How each sex behaves
it is learned from society, Boy learns from father brother and same sex friends
girl learns from mother, sister and same sex friends
Sex roles are different from society to society
it is changing with time
e.g.-Trouser was a basically male dress item but not any more



Sex Orientation
Once person matures he or she is physically and sexually attracted to opposite sex
(heterosexuals) , and some percentage of people are attracted same sex (Homosexuals)

There are lot of knowledge and theories in medicine (psychology) explaining how human sexuality develops starting from genetics to neuro hormonal influences to social influence

Homosexuality is a problem of Sex orientation
Transgender is problem of sex Identity
and the list goes

A male Homosexual is
Biologically male
He thinks he is a male (sex Identity)
He behaves like a male (sex Role)
He is attracted sexually to males (sex orientation)

A Lesbian is
Biologically female
She thinks she is female (Identity)
Behaves like a Female (sex Role)
She is sexually attracted to Females (orientation)

As mentioned above There are theories to explain why a person becomes Homosexual (any standard Psychology text books explains in detail)

Homosexuality was considered Psychological Disease ( Mental and Behavioural Disorders ICD9)
But WHO ICD10 (international Classification of Disesess 10) do not consider as disease still Homosexuality could be included as disease under other categories). Americans do not consider homosexuality as form of disease.

So we like or not there will be percentage of Muslim who are Homosexuals- Not due to fault of theirs but due to various affects during early child development.

What are we going to do?- we can close our eye and wait wishing they go to hell or formulate a good response and create a program to rehabilitate them. If not Organizations like EG will come to their rescue with or without hidden agenda and use them ageist us.


Equal ground web site Promoting Homosexuality