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LAWS AND POLICIES

Le s SUPPORTING SEXUALITY AND
GENDER IN THE PHILIPPINES
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Assessment
Activity 1. Identification (2 points each)

1. It includes the protection of students from any form of violence regardless

of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

2. It sought to eliminate discrimination against women by

recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and promoting the rights of Filipino
women, especially those in marginalized sector.

3. It is the gender equality guiding plan of the Philippine Development Plan.

4. An independent constitutional office that is authorized to act as the

Gender and Development Ombud.

5. A law that regulates any act that humiliates or excludes a person on the
basis of perceived or actual sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).

Activity 2. Answer the following situational questions:

1. Ladlad party-list, a Filipino lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)

political party that founded on September 1, 2003, submitted its Petition
for Registration and Manifestation of Intent to Participate in the May 2022
polls. In 2010, the Commission on Election (COMELEC) disqualified
the group on the grounds of “immorality.” On the bases of the different
laws and policies supporting gender and sexuality, was the disqualification
valid? Explain in not less than 250 words.

2. People v. Penonia is a case of an 11 year old, grade 4 student in a public

elementary school, referred to as AAA refused to wear the uniform skirt for
girls and opted to wear slacks. Sometime in the first week of July of 2012,
AAA was repeatedly made to wear a school curtain by the school’s
principal, hence was laughed at and ridiculed by other students. The mother
of AAA only discovered what was happening to her daughter from another
student only later on as AAA never mentioned it.
The mother brought the case to court using RA 7610, or the Anti-Child Abuse
Law. Despite the psychological evaluation presented during the trial which
stated that the incident has had negative psychological effects on AAA, the
Cagayan De Oro City trial court ruled on May of 2016 that the case for Child
Abuse was not proven. The judge reasoned that the act of making AAA
wear a curtain as a skirt “may arguably be incorrect” but the child and
parent “surely have a share of the blame for the mess” as the uniform
policy was agreed upon by both parents and teachers. The judge supported
the action of the Principal as an imposition “that is within the ambit of her
authority” in order “to give sense to the agreed school policy and to
correct AAA’s deviating attitude.”

Was the ruling in accordance to the different laws and policies supporting
gender and sexuality in the Philippines? Explain in not less than 250 words.