Usana, Ashley Nicole M.

September 11,2019

Campus Journalism

SOGIE, is an abbreviation combining sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression,
has become one of the main reference terms to describe the LGBT (or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender) community. How does it affect the society? It simply just like this when you utter a word
that hurts the feelings of the LGBT's, they can file a case against you. Now tell me, it’s about equality. If
straight people hurt the feelings of LGBTs, they are made to pay an amount of money, or worst-case
scenario they can be sent to jail. What if LGBTs hurt the feeling of straight people? The bill is SILENT. And
they would say that it is equality? Toxicity at its finest. It creates a ripple effect in our society that will
neither soon be like a major problem in our economy then in our spiritual life.

It imperils freedom of speech and religion. Many people are threatened with punishment if they
share the Bible-based beliefs on matters of transgender. It is slowly killing the beliefs of other people,
most likely to the people who does not know any kind of form of the bill. It's just a sad moment for us too,
because they questioned our God who does only created man and woman in his own image and likeness.
But still, I will stand where my God is. And little by little will proclaim the truth that our Father is the
Creator of all.