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NOW: The 2nd Public Hearing on the SOGIE Equality Bill. Today we have advocates and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community, gov't agencies, and reps from those opposed to SOGIE Equality Bill.

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The 2nd public hearing of the SOGIE Equality Bill is now in session.

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@LagablabNetwork Sen. @risahontiveros: Andito tayo ngayon para makinig sa isa't-isa. Unawain ang isa't-isa. Let us preserve this committee as a safe space for everyone.

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@LagablabNetwork @risahontiveros Hontiveros: Let us remind ourselves of our unities. That we are against discrimination.

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LOOK: Preliminary statement of Atty. Lyndon Caña of the Coalition of Concerned Families of the Philippines on the SOGIE Equality Bill.

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Caña: This bill is based on feelings. It is not based on facts.

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Caña referring to Diez case: Women's toilet is for women. That's based on fact. Now here comes a man who insists he is a woman who insists they should be there.
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Kata Inocencio of 700 Club: There are stories of 3 gentlemen on this panel of how they have come from the LGBT Community and how they now live their life of the male gender they were born into.

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Atty. Salumbides, Legal Counsel of the 700 Club Asia: Importante rin na di tayo mapako sa pagiging sensitibo sa ating mga feelings. Can't we move towards the sensitivity of maturity?

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Salumbides: There are serious concerns regarding labeling (of the LGBT Community). Isn't this proposed law coming up with a special kind of labeling?

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Salumbides: Does this not give undue preference for those of the LGBT Community? Parang binibigyan natin sila ng special na karapatan o proteksyon.

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Cesar Buendia: I represent the group of people who used to live as homosexuals. We too know the pain. Nevertheless we stand firmly against the "SOGIE bill".

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Buendia: Gender identity is based on the mind and not on objective, observable facts.

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Buendia: LGBTQ+ has no clear definition. The set acronym has no set meaning. What will prevent the addition of P for pedophilia? Will these people be given rights?

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Buendia: Homosexuality is akin to religion and is based on belief. The "SOGIE Bill" gives undue special rights of one belief over the other.

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Buendia: The "SOGIE Bill" will make us who believe in the Christian faith second class citizens.

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Buendia: Pass a law that protects all people from discrimination and not just one group.

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Obet dela Cruz, Intercessors of the Philippines: We are coming from a natural law position. We want to keep our definitions on gender and "sex discrimination" based on natural law.

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Dela Cruz: We post in our Facebook page asking for people not to bash LGBT people.

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Ansel Beluso of Pro-Life Philippines: I am an ex-gay and have chosen to live the path of change and renewal.

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Beluso: Because of this official invention of special LGBTQI+ rights, the "SOGIE Bill" when enacted to law will encourage a culture of lies and deceit.

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Beluso: The first lie is that genitals do not determine sex and gender.

Nowhere in any scientific journal or biology textbook says otherwise.

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Beluso: Gender dysphoria is a mental illness.

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Beluso: "Raising children that espouses, promotes, propagates gender ideology harms them. Conditioning children into a believing opposite sex impersonation is child abuse."

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Beluso: The so-called LGBTQI+ ideology that the "SOGIE Bill" promotes is not part of Filipino culture. There is no Filipino word for bisexual, transgender, or queer.

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Beluso: Pope Francis said resist ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family. God bless and have mercy on us all.

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Dr. Natsy of the @UPCWGS: The God I came to know is compassionate and just.

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Dr. Natsy Africa-Verceles: Is it compassionate and just to adhere to ideologies that we know are oppressive?

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Africa-Verceles: Decades of scientific research have led mental health organizations worldwide assert that LGBT are normal variants of human sexuality.

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Africa-Verceles: Sexuality is a development issue. It should be about increasing people's well-being particularly the marginalized.
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Africa-Verceles: Being a member of the LGBTI sector can have deleterious effects on their well-being.

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Africa-Verceles: LGBTQI rights are human rights.

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Africa-Verceles: LGBTI are discriminated against in hospitals, schools, and by their own families.

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Africa-Verceles: All people irrespoctive of SOGI are entitled to respect afforded by the universal human rights.

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Africa-Verceles: LGBTQI people will not disappear if their rights are not given. They will simply remain more vulnerable.

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Africa-Verceles repeats: LGBTQI rights are human rights.

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"I decline a world of discrimination and oppression."

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Lance Dela Cruz, Catholics for Equality: Every time you deny LGBT of their God given rights, I want you to imagine telling that to your children and to Jesus.

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Lance Dela Cruz: The time to win equality is now.

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Sr. Mary John Mananzan: Sometimes you have to focus on groups of people that are suffering discrimination and violence.

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Mananzan: This SOGIE Equality Bill does not give any special rights or any privilege to these people. As a religious woman I believe in respect and compassion.

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Mananzan: We support the SOGIE Equality Bill.

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Bishop Solito Toquero of the United Methodist Church: Kami ay pabor sa Bill na ito dahil hindi nito sinusuppress ang religious freedom.

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Toquero: Ang tao ay katiwala ng Diyos, we are stewards of God so we can care for one another. But we have been discriminating against people because we are privileged.

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Professor Revelacion from the United Church of Christ of the Philippines has entitled their statement "LGBT: Let Grace Be Total"

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Revelacion: The SOGIE Equality Bill is an expression of what most churches celebrate. Human rights and human dignity.

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Revelacion: The Bible is a well-spring of diversity.
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Revelacion: Satan knows the Bible. Despots have used it. Many churches have used it to demonize women, persons with disability, indigenous people.

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Revelacion: We follow Jesus the one who sided with the oppressed, discriminated, and marginalized.

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Revelacion: We believe Jesus will take the side he has always taken. The side of farmers, the side of Lumad who schools are being bombed, the side of LGBT who are being discriminated.

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Pastor Kakay Pamaran of the Union Theological Seminary: The SOGIE Equality Bill does not infringe on religious freedom. We believe that all are created in God's image. Diversity is God's gift and should be celebrated.

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Pamaran: We choose to celebrate the depth and breadth of SOGIE and will not discriminate on this basis.

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Pamaran: We seek to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

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Pamaran: At the heart of the Christian gospel is the relentless persistence of hope and justice in the name of Jesus Christ. We therefore commit ourselves in the creation of safe and compassionate communities.
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Pamaran: The SOGIE Equality Law is a essential in the creation of these communities.

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National Council of Churches in the Philippines: We affirm that human beings are created in the image of God. Part of dignity is being able to express oneself including sexuality.

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NCCP: When everyone works for justice, it helps the common good. When it comes to the LGBT Community, Christians stand for the building of a society where human relationships are not built on what divides us but on what unites us.

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Eva Callueng of Rainbow Catholics Philippines: We do not see anything in the SOGIE Equality Bill that runs contrary to the Church's teachings.

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Callueng: If Jesus were with us today, would Jesus discriminate?

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Mira Ofreneo of the Psychological Association of the Philippines: Ang SOGIE ay scientific fact. Ito ay basa sa science, sa psychology.

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Ofreneo: Ang pagiging LGBTIQ ay normal. Hindi ito sakit. Hindi ito disorder. Na sinabi na rin ng maraming siyentista. Hindi lang psychologists, hindi lang psychiatrist. Kasama na dito ang World Health Organization.

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Ofreneo: Ang epekto ng karahasan dahil sa pagiging LGBTIQ ay napakalaki at napakalawak.

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Ofreneo: Mas mataas po ang level ng depression, anxiety, pananakit sa sarili o self-harm, at suicide sa LGBTIQ dahil sa pananakit sa kanila.

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Ofreneo reads from joint statement of Catholic Schools: Naninindigan kami kasama ng aming mga senador na pinipilit protektahan ang lahat ng Pilipino laban sa diskriminasyon.

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Ofreneo: Lahat ng Pilipino ay may SOGIE. Kinikilala ng SOGIE Equality Bill ang epekto ng stigma at diskriminasyon dahil sa SOGIE.

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Tessa De Vela of Miriam College Women and Gender Institute: To pass the SOGIE Equality Bill is to recognize discrimination against LGBTIQ people. Passing this bill means the legislators of this congress will serve the cause of justice.

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De Vela: Kapag sinasabi na ang LGBTIQ people ay sobrang sensitibo. Baka dahil ito ay napakainsensitibo ng ating society sa LGBTIQ people.

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Bulacan State University Bahaghari message to fellow Bulakeño, Senator Joel Villanueve: Pass the SOGIE Equality Bill.

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KJ Lorenzana: I identify as a trans man. When I was in high school, bibili sana ako ng polo na uniform for boys. Tinanong ng guidance counselor kung sino ang nagbigay ng authority. Sabi ko po, ang mama ko po.

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Lorenzana: Sabi ng guidance counselor, wag akong payagang bumili at mag palda nalang ako.

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Lorenzana: Pero hindi ko na po kaya. Ilang years na akong nakapalda. Baka pwedeng itong huling taon ko payagan na akong magpants at polo.

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Lorenzana: Pinayuhan po ako ng LGBT community na isuot ang panlalaking uniform. Sinuot ko po. Sabi ng guidance counselor ko, kapag pumasok ako na nakapanlalako, haharangin nila ako sa gate at di papapasukin sa mga klase ko.

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Lorenzana: Sabi ng principal ko "Bakit ka nakaganyan? Lalaki ka ba? Kung lalaki ka halika nga kapkapin kita. Kung meron akong makakapkap saka ka lang lalaki."

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Lorenzana was going to file against their principal under the Anti-Bullying Act but the principal said: "Hindi ka namin binubully dahil di ka namin ka-level."

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Teresita Lorenzana, mother of KJ Lorenzana: Sinusuportahan ko po siya dahil anak ko po siya.

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Teresita Lorenzana: Two years old pa po siya alam ko na pong ganito siya. Bata pa lang siya tinanggap ko na po siya.

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KJ Lorenzana: Noong pinayagan po akong suotin ang panlalaking uniform mas masaya ako at naging mas magaling sa klase. Kasi pakiramdam ko mas malaya ako.

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Teresita Lorenzana: Dumunong po ako sa DepEd. Nireceive po nila pero hindi na nila ako tinawagan. Hanggang ngayon po ay ang number ko ganun pa rin.

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De Vela: If there was a SOGIE Equality Law, hindi na po tayo aabot sa pagrereklamo sa DepEd.

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Commissioner Karen Dumpit of @chrgovph: The Commission supports the enactment of the law that protects against discrimination on the basis of SOGIE, particularly the LGBT Community.

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Dumpit: There are some remedies available, but they are not enough. The SOGIE Equality Bill is needed to further correct and call for affirmative action.

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PUP Kasarianlan: To live without discrimination is NOT a privilege.

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Pastor Augusto of the Intercessors of the Philippines: We will be saying no to the "SOGIE Bill" because it is discriminatory in itself and an attack against humans.

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Augusto: It attacks science. It attacks genetics and other natural sciences.

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Pastor Flores, Jesus is Lord Church: The SOGIE Equality Bill threatens academic freedom, freedom of expression of religions.

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Flores: The "SOGIE Bill" discriminates the straight community.

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"Wag nating gamitin ang siyensya at sikolohiya para mang misinform."

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Mina Tenorio of Likhaan Center for Women's Health: We strongly support the bills that prohibit discrimination on the basis of SOGIE.

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Tenorio: LGBTQI people should be treated as equal members of society.

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Tenorio: SOGIE-based discrimination is a cruel punishment that should not be imposed on anyone.

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Tenorio: Discrimination harms people physically and psychologically.

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Tenorio: If a religious speech is meant to insult, shame, or vilify on the basis of SOGIE then it is discriminatory.

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Dr. Yeng Gatchalian of the Psychological Association of the Philippines, LGBT Special Interest Group: While most transgender people experience distress, it is because of societal factors.

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Gatchalian: The language of DSM-IV should not be used to misinform or discriminate.

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Gatchalian: We are calling on all mental health professionals to not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived SOGIE.

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Gatchalian: There is nothing abnormal among our LGBTQ friends.

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Gatchalian: We affirm that trans women are women. Trans men are men.

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Philippine Commission on Women: We recognize that persons of diverse SOGIE experience discrimination.

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Leslie of GALANG Philippines: Mahirap na nga kami, lagi pa kaming dinidiskrimina. Di makahanap ng trabaho, di makapasok sa eskwelahan. Nananawagan po kami sa agarang pagpasa ng SOGIE Equality Bill.

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Regina Layug of @pridehugsph: I am a cisgender woman who is married for many years. I went to Pride to hug those who couldn't hug their own parents.

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Layug: Yung mga yinakap ko nung Pride hindi ko naman alam SOGIE nila. Ang alam ko lang lahat sila naghahanap ng yakap.

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Layug: I'm a mother and I want my son and all other children to grow up without fearing how society will treat him if he happens to be anything but straight.

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"I went to Pride to build a world where my son's SOGIE won't matter because he won't be denied human rights."

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The 2nd Public Hearing on the SOGIE Equality Bill is now adjourned.

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