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Indian Religions

Sikhisms are protesting for the LGBT Pride community in London.

Another word for Sikhism is Sikhi. The religion, Sikhism is the fifth biggest in the whole world. The Sikh term signifies "learned" or "truth-seeker." Sikhism promotes tolerance for different religions, equality, social justice, and service to mankind and so much more. The Sikh faith, which is separate from Islam and Hinduism, was established in Northern India in the fifteenth century by Guru Nanak Deev Ji. Man and woman are equal in Sikhism, which is monotheistic. The three fundamental tenets of Sikhism are sharing the benefits of one's labor with others, earning a living via moral means, and meditating in the name of God which is prayer. Service to mankind is valued in Sikhism, which rejects caste and class hierarchies. Sikhism is a very monotheistic religion that holds that there is only one ultimate Creator who is genderless, absolute, all-pervading, and eternal. According to Sikhism, life is a special chance for everyone of us to uncover and develop our inner divinity rather than a descent from grace. Sikhs believe that human rights and justice are fundamental, and their history is replete with instances of Sikh Gurus and their adherents making enormous sacrifices in the name of justice and religious freedom.

In Sikhism society

Sikhi teaches Sikhs to value their bodies and minds. It also teaches transgender and queer Sikhs the significance and function of their bodies and minds. It is intended to center around the way that Sikhs who identify as transgender, queer, or feminine see the world, a concept also known as "transgender embodiment" and what it may teach individuals. The attempt to denounce transgender and queer experiences from the experiences with intra-community sexual abuse, the possibility of homelessness, the lack of healthcare, and forced marriages make sense if you think that gender play or homosexuality is wrong. Sikhisms protest to speak on behalf of the LGBT community to make a statement. A society and culture founded on a revolt against repressive standards was formed by the ten Sikh Gurus. However, cisgender males who believe that the increasing acceptance and exposure of feminism, queerness, and transgender issues threatens their long-standing dominance continue to support archaic patriarchal norms that disadvantage queer, trans, and female-identified Sikhs in Sikh community. One way that transgender and queer Sikhs are fighting for their legal rights to exist in modern communities throughout the world is by opposing colonial state systems that criminalize sexual diversity, as activists in India have done by repealing Section 377. Even so, patriarchal bloodlines and marriage laws continue to be used by the remaining structures to transfer property; for this reason, transgender and queer revolutionary activists in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s opposed making marriage the primary goal and instead concentrated. Therefore, inclusion and assimilation are not sufficient to lead us to mukti on their own. Everyday, everyone of us must choose how to go forward with their lives. One of those choices is whether or not they subject people that may find difficult or undesirable to comprehend in order to advance on our road towards the Guru.

References

Who are Sikhs? what is Sikhism?. SikhNet. (2022b, February 28). https://www.sikhnet.com/pages/who-are-sikhs-what-is-sikhism [1]

pm, J. 11/13/2023 at 5:12, & Jaspreet. (2020, September 28). Policing the bodies of Transgender & Queer Sikhs. Kaur Life. https://kaurlife.org/2020/09/27/policing-the-bodies-of-transgender-queer-sikhs/ [2]

Krutzsch, B. (2022, October 7). Virtual communities are critical lifelines for Transgender Sikhs. The Revealer. https://therevealer.org/virtual-communities-are-critical-lifelines-for-transgender-sikhs/