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Samvardhinee Nyas, a wing of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti (the women’s equal of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS), is conducting a survey throughout the nation among doctors, allied medical professionals (resembling physiotherapists and psychologists), and AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa, and Homeopathy) practitioners, on their observations on those that establish as queer. The responses can be shared with the Supreme Court that is presently listening to the same-sex marriage situation, stated Madhuri Marathe, organising secretary of the group that was launched in 2021.
According to the Samvardhinee Nyas, which calls itself a cultural physique that celebrates matrushakti (motherhood), the preliminary findings from 300+ entries recommend that medical practitioners who took the survey consider homosexuality is a dysfunction (60.69%). Many don’t suggest marriage rights for the LGBTQ+ community (84.2%).
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The survey has eight questions, together with, “Do you think that marriage is necessary for homosexuals to have a sexual life?” It additionally asks the members if sexually transmitted ailments are extra widespread in these from the community (83% stated sure), and in the event that they consider the Supreme Court ought to intervene in the determination of marriage (57% really feel it mustn’t). Medical practitioners who’ve been working for 5 to 30 years have been requested to fill in the Google kind.
“Up to 67.6% doctors feel that homosexual parents cannot bring up children properly, while 19.18% feel they can; about 13.2% participants are not sure,” a senior workplace bearer of the Samvardhinee Nyas stated.
The survey has to this point discovered that 23.5% medical practitioners have handled sufferers from the LGBTQ+ community, whereas 76.41% say they’ve by no means come throughout any affected person who identifies as queer.
Ms. Marathe stated the survey displays that the determination to legalise marriages inside the queer community would “promote” the “spread” of the “disorder”. Also, “Such relations may increase sexually transmitted diseases” that may threaten society as a complete. She added that Samwardhini Nyas doesn’t help marriage amongst those that establish as LGBTQ+ as women’s safety can be at stake.
