Through a prospective cross-sectional study design, we aimed to determine the current health status of transgender persons with a special emphasis on bone health. There was a dearth of data regarding their major health problems including bone health, which has not been reported in India and elsewhere before this study. Often, transgender persons have been the subjects of sociology, psychology, and health issues. The third gender population of India is marginalised to a great extent in every sector. In India, transgender persons were recognised as the ‘third gender’ in 2014. gender identities and sexual orientations, which is unlikely from the West, forming a culturally unique gender group. The Indian transgender person‘s community shows a variety of. The kaleidoscope of the socio-cultural fabric comprises the transgender population too, which has a historical context dating back millennia and also plays a vital role as described in Hindu scriptures.
With a population dividend of around 1.3 billion, India is the largest democracy in the world that encompasses “unity in diversity”. This queer agency marks not just a transgression of heteronormative Christian norms but also engenders expansive ways of understanding human sexuality and gender identities. I read these Afrikaans-language films against the conceptualisation of the libidinal offered by Keguro Macharia together with the ideas of queer agency proposed by Adriaan van Klinken. Such rethinking creates accommodative spaces within faith communities in a way in which queerness is not viewed as a deviance or an abomination. At the same time, the films show that it is possible to rethink religions/faith communities. The two films, despite their different genres, broach the difficulty of being queer and religious.
The two films represent different filmic genres with Kanarie a fictional feature film and Skeef being a documentary. in which queer and faith communities interact in Afrikaans-speaking communities in two films: Kanarie and Skeef. In this article, I examine how the libidinal is central to the way. In the Afrikaans-speaking communities of South Africa, Calvinist doctrine and dogma have been used to marginalise and ostracise those sexual and gender identities that stray from the heteronormative scripts sanctioned by cultural and religious practices.
Religion is often viewed as incompatible with queer sexualities and genders.
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