Transgender Platform in the Philippines

Rye83 · Apr 30, 2018

While there are no laws criminalizing homosexuality in the Philippines, there are no laws specifically protecting gay or transgender people, either.

Geraldine Roman, the country’s first openly transgender member of Congress, is spearheading efforts to broaden legal protections in the Philippines.

For nearly 20 years, conservative politicians, backed by Catholic and evangelical groups, have thwarted anti-discrimination measures, arguing that they would infringe on people’s right to religious expression.

But last September, with Ms. Roman at the helm, a bill prohibiting bias on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression passed the House of Representatives unanimously.

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President Rodrigo Duterte said while campaigning in 2016 that he supported same-sex marriage, and he says he has relatives who are gay.

“Definitely, the gays were created by God,” Mr. Duterte said on the campaign trail.

As a teenager he examined his own sexuality, he said: “When I was in high school, I did not know if I wanted to be a girl or a boy.”

A Transgender Paradox, and Platform, in the Philippines
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The Philippines is quite the paradox. Good on them though.

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