CHAPTER 8 Gender & Society Brief Background Of SOGIE Bill

+ Year 2014
What is SOGIE BILL?
Trans woman Jennifer Laude is murdered
• The Sexual Orientation and Gender
by a US Marine on October 11. Laude’s
Identity Expression Equality Bill or also
case catalyzes discussion and action
known Anti-Discrimination Bill that aims
toward advancing transgender rights.
to prevent any discrimination against
+ Year 2016
people based on their gender identity,
During the election campaign, then-
sexual orientation and expression.
senatorial candidate Manny Pacquiao calls
• The SOGIE Equality Bill is meant to
same-sex couples “mas masahol pa sa
fulfill the rights set forth in the 1987
hayop (worse than animals)” in a viral
constitution, particularly the equal
video interview by Bilang Pilipino. He has
protection clause. It recognizes the
served two terms as a congressman by
LGBTQ++ as equals and ensures that
this time. Bataan congressional candidate
their rights are protected inasmuch as
Geraldine Roman makes history as she
everyone’s is.
takes her seat as the first-ever elected
transgender woman in the House of
Brief Background Of SOGIE Bill Representatives in May. The first Senate
History in Congress version of the anti-discrimination bill is
The earliest version of the SOGIE filed on August 11 by Senator Risa
equality bill was filed in 2000 by the late Hontiveros, while its House counterpart
senator Miriam Defensor Santiago and remains pending.
former Akbayan representative Loretta
Brief Background Of SOGIE Bill
Rosales under the 11th Congress.
+ Year 2017
+ Year 2013 August 3, then-Commission
After 17 years since its first filing, the
on Human Rights (CHR) chair and pioneer
anti-discrimination bill is passed by the
SOGIE bill sponsor Loretta Ann Rosales
17th Congress on its third and final
says the CHR is working on a database on
reading on September 20 with a vote of
LGBTQ+ hate crimes to better their
197-0 in the House of Representatives.
prosecution and investigation. By the end
The version of Rep. Geraldine Roman.
of the same month, then-Laguna
+ Year 2019
representative Sol Aragones introduces
The anti-discrimination bill is due for
House Bill No. 2572, which would make
passage by June before the 17thCongress
LGBTQ+ hate crimes an aggravating
adjourns. The bill languishes after
circumstance for crimes against persons
suffering 3 years of interpellations.
and chastity.
After Hontiveros delivers a privilege
speech on August 14, renewing her call

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for Congress to pass the SOGIE bill,.
Sotto strikes back with another remark
about the bill having “no chance” of
passing the Senate if it “transgresses on
academic freedom, religious freedom,
and women’s rights.”
What Is The Inside Of The SOGIE Bill?
SECTION 2: Declaration of Policy
The State recognizes the fundamental
right of every person regardless of sex,
age, class, status, ethnicity, color,
disability, religious, and political beliefs,
sexual orientation, or gender identity or
expression, to be free from any form of
discrimination. It shall therefore
intensify its efforts to fulfill its duties
under the Equal Protection Clause and
the Bill Rights provisions of the
Philippine Constitution, and international
and domestic laws to respect, protect,
and fulfill the rights and dignity of
every individual.
What Is The Inside Of The SOGIE Bill?
SECTION 5: Discriminatory Practices
+ Promote and encourage stigma on the
basis of SOGIE in the media, in
educational
textbooks, and other medium. Inciting
violence and sexual abuse against any
person or
group on the basis of SOGIE is likewise
prohibited;
+ Include SOGIE, as well as the
disclosure of sexual orientation, in the
criteria for hiring, promotion, transfer,
designation, work assignment, re-
assignment, dismissal of workers, and
other human resource movement and
action, performance review and in the
determination of employee compensation,
career development opportunities,
training, and other learning and
development interventions, incentives,
privileges, benefits or allowances, and
other terms and conditions of
employment.
+ Refuse admission or expel a person
from any educational or training
institution on the basis of SOGIE.
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SECTION 5: Discriminatory Practices
+ Impose disciplinary sanctions, penalties
harsher than customary or similar
punishments, requirements, restrictions,
or prohibitions that infringe on the
rights of the students on the basis of
SOGIE, including discriminating against a
student or trainee due to the SOGIE of
the student's parents or legal guardian;
+ Refuse or revoke the accreditation,
formal recognition, registration or plan
to organize of any organization, group,
political party, institution or
establishment, in educational institutions,
workplaces, communities, and other
settings, solely on the basis of the
SOGIE of their members or of their
target constituencies;
+ Deny a person access to public or
private medical and other health services
open to the general public, as well as
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access to public and private health
insurance, including HMOs, on the basis What Is The Inside Of The SOGIE Bill?
of SOGIE; SECTION 5: Discriminatory Practices
+ Subject a person to any other
What Is The Inside Of The SOGIE Bill?
analogous acts that shall have the effect
SECTION 5: Discriminatory Practices
or purpose of impairing or nullifying the
+ Deny an application for or revoke, on
enjoyment, recognition, and exercise of a
the basis of SOGIE, any government
person's human rights
license, authority, clearance, permit,
certification, or other similar documents
necessary to exercise a profession,
business, or any other legitimate calling;
+ Deny a person, access to or the use of
establishments, facilities, utilities or
services, including housing, open to the
general public on the basis of SOGIE.
+ Subject or force any person to
undertake any medical or psychological
examination to or alter the person's
SOGIE without the expressed approval
of the person involved, except in cases
where the person involved is a minor and
below the age of discernment in which
case prior approval of the appropriate
Family Court shall be required.
+ Subject any person, natural or juridical,
to profiling, detention, or verbal or
physical harassment on the basis of
SOGIE.

What Is The Inside Of The SOGIE Bill?

SECTION 5: Discriminatory Practices
+ Subject a person to any other
analogous acts that shall have the effect
or purpose of impairing or nullifying the
enjoyment, recognition, and exercise of a
person's human rights and fundamental
freedoms.
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