Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation According to Anthropology and Religious Jurisprudence and Its Contribution for Interfaith Dialogue

Abstract

This paper presents several findings on the description of gender identity, both normal in society and "more unique" along with the meaning of sexual orientation based on historical, anthropological, and religious law perspectives. At the beginning, this paper describes the struggle and the history of women and gender minorities in "surviving" in the midst of social and formal legal inequality. It then continued in the second part that explains the role of gender minorities in the continuity of interfaith dialogue, several large and national-scale figures will be displayed in this section. Then the last part explains how interfaith dialogue plays a role in the development of gender issues both struggles in the form of religious movements and academic forums. This paper uses library method in collecting data and also use the case study approach to describe the three four sets of things above systematically and accurately.