The controversial issue resurfaced when Gretchen Custodia Diez, a transgender woman who was prevented by a janitress from using women’s restroom in a Cubao mall in Quezon City. Diez took a video of the encounter which enraged the janitress who dragged her to the security room. Diez was detained by the cops, handcuffed and shamed. Diez says "I didn't think that I will be treated like a criminal." The incident went viral and the transwoman was asked to air her side at the Senate and issued a statement urging President Duterte pass the SOGIE Equality bill.
Senate President Vicente Sotto II AKA Tito Sotto issued his stand on the COGIE Bill which draws mixed reactions from Netizens.
"If you are a
man, you will never be a woman, no matter what you do, because you cannot
reproduce. You cannot give birth, you do not have ovaries. You will never be a
woman. So this, to me, the SOGIE Bill is a bill against women's rights." –
Senator Tito Sotto
TV-Host and Unkabogable Gay Superstar Vice Ganda posted on his IG his response to Senator Sotto’s rants against
transwomen and this is what he had to say:
Joke po ba ito Hon. Senate President Tito Sotto ??? Sinasabi nyo po ba na
naniniwala kayo na ang pagiging BABAE ay nasusukat lamang sa pagkakaroon ng
obaryo o matris at sa kakayahan lang na mabuntis o magka-anak? E paano po yung
mga nagkaroon ng matinding karamdaman at tinanggalan ng obaryo? Di na po ba
sila BABAE? Wala na ba silang karapatang tawaging BABAE? O bumaba na ba ang uri
ng kanilang PAGKAKABABAE? Paano din po yung mga baog at walang kakayahang
magka-anak? Ano po sila? Di na din sila BABAE? Mga wala na ba silang kwentang
mga BABAE? At paano naman po yung mga BABAENG choice nila na wag mag-anak dahil
ayaw nila dahil sa kanilang mga personal na rason? Di na din ba sila matatawag
na BABAE? Paano din po yung mga BABAE na may obaryo pero pinayuhang wag magbuntis
dahil sa medikal na kondisyon at maaring mameligro ang kanilang buhay? Di na
din sila BABAE? Ano na po sila? Paano din po yung mga BABAENG may obaryo pero
wala pang anak dahil ayaw naman nilang magpatira kung kani kanino? Ano na sila?
Parang ang baba naman po pala ng tingin nyo sa mga BABAE. Naniniwala po ako na
ang mga BABAE ay BABAE di dahil sa obaryo at sa kakayahang bumukaka at umire.
Sila ay BABAE dahil sila ay BABAE. At MAY HALAGA sila may matris man o wala,
magbuntis man o hindi,may anak man o wala dahil sila ay ay TAO at sila ay
BABAE. Sinubukan ninyong maliitin ang konsepto ng pagiging TRANSGENDER sa
paraang tinapakan nyo rin ang dignidad ng mga tinatawag nyong TOTOONG BABAE.
Paumanhin po HON. SENATE PRESIDENT."
ARE FILIPINOS READY FOR
SOGIE BILL?
SOGIE is an acronym for the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and
Expression Equality Bill. The SOGIE BILL is also known as the Anti-Discrimination Bill (ADB). Accordingly,
the bill was first filed in 2000 by the late Senator Defensor Santiago and
former Akbayan Party-List Represetative Etta Rosales. The bill passed the 3rd reading in
the House of Representatives but stalled in the Senate. Similar measures were filed by other Senators
in the 15th and 16th congresses which failed to see progress.[3] The bill was re-filed by Defensor-Santiago in every
congressional period in the Senate until the end of her last term in 2016. The
counterpart bill in the House was also filed continuously by the
representatives of Akbayan party-list.
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