Manila Mayor Francisco ‘Isko Moreno’ Domagoso signed on Thursday the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance, punishing anyone who discriminates according to a person’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE).
The president’s statement came nearly a month after meeting LGBT advocates and Gretchen Diez, the transgender barred from using the female restroom in a Quezon City mall.
Sen. Nancy Binay threw an interesting question in this week’s Senate hearing on the Sogie Equality Bill: Will an all-girls school like St. Scholastica’s College accept trans women as students?
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III believes closed circuit television (CCTV) footage will show what really happened when transwoman Gretchen Diez was asked to leave the women’s toilet and allegedly harassed by the mall’s janitress, Chayra Ganal.
“There are victims of discrimination because of their height, but do we need an Anti-Short Stature Discrimination Act? There are victims of discrimination because they are fat, but do we need an Anti-Obese Discrimination Act?”