Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression(S.O.G.I.

E)

SOGIE refers to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and. describes a
wider spectrum of all people, not only the “LGBT” (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)
community. It is now being introduced in many legal doctrines, in United Nation documents, and
it is becoming popular in social media.

The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Expression (SOGIE, Tagalog: ['sɔdʒi]) Equality Bill, also known as the Anti-Discrimination
Bill (ADB),[1][2] is a bill that was proposed by the Congress of the Philippines. It is intended to prevent
various economic and public accommodation-related acts of discrimination against people based on
their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. [3] The current version of the bill is sponsored
by Kaka Bag-ao, Geraldine Roman, Tom Villarin in the House of Representatives, and Risa
Hontiveros in the Senate. The version in the House of Representatives passed its third reading most
recently on September 20, 2017, but died in the Senate. [4] It has been refiled for the 18th Congress.
The bill was first filed in congress in 2000 by former Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago and
former Akbayan party-list Representative Etta Rosales. The bill passed a third reading in the House
but stalled in the Senate. Similar measures were filed by other senators in the 15th and 16th
congresses without success.[5] The bill was refiled by Defensor-Santiago in every congressional
period in the Senate until her last term in 2016. The counterpart bill in the House was also filed
continuously by the representatives of Akbayan. In 2017, House Bill No. 4982 (sponsored by
Dinagat Islands Representative Kaka Bag-ao (the principal author of the measure since her first
term), Bataan Representative Geraldine Roman, Akbayan Representative Tomas Villarin, and
several others) was not approved for a third and final reading for the first time since 2001 [6] with 198
members of the House of Representatives voting for the bill and none opposing it, a historic pro-
LGBT move from the House of Representatives.[7]
The counterpart bill in the Senate, filed by Senator Risa Hontiveros (the first Akbayan senator), was
in the period of interpolations by May 2018. It was backed by Senators Loren Legarda, Grace
Poe, Nancy Binay, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Chiz Escudero, Ralph Recto, Sonny Angara, JV
Ejercito, Francis Pangilinan, Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Leila de Lima, although de Lima is barred from
voting on the bill as she is currently in police custody. [8][9] It was opposed by Senators Tito
Sotto, Manny Pacquiao, Cynthia Villar, and Joel Villanueva (who signed up as a co-author of the
bill).[10] Other senators such as Win Gatchalian, Koko Pimentel, Antonio Trillanes, Panfilo Lacson,
and Richard J. Gordon did not express their support or rejection of the bill. Senator Trillanes is
currently facing cases that may put him in jail, which may make him ineligible to vote for the bill like
senator de Lima if he is arrested. Additionally, Alan Peter Cayetano and Gregorio Honasan lost their
voting rights on Senate measures as they declined to be part of the presidential cabinet. [11] Out of the
existing 24 Senate seats: 12 seats can vote and are in support of the bill, 1 seat is in support but
cannot vote on the bill, 4 seats can vote and are in opposition to the bill, 5 seats can vote on the bill
but have not yet given their positions on it (although the number may be reduced to 5), and 2 seats
are de facto vacated.[11] For a bill to pass the Senate, it needs more than half the votes in favor of it
from all 24 Senate seats. The SOGIE Equality Bill currently is supported by 12 seats that
are allowed to vote on the measure.[12]
The bill is also supported by the Catholic student governments of University of the Philippines-
Diliman (UPD), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU)-Manila, De La
Salle - College of St. Benilde (CSB), Far Eastern University (FEU), Miriam College (MC), St.
Scholastica's College (SSC)-Manila and San Beda University (SBU). The longest running LGBT
student organization, UP Babaylan, has also been supporting the bill ever since it was first filed, [13] as
well as known celebrities and icons such as Heart Evangelista, Nadine Lustre, Bianca Gonzalez, Iza
Calzado, Charo Santos-Concio, Dingdong Dantes, Joey Mead King, Divine Lee, Karen Davila, Chot
Reyes, Tootsy Angara, BJ Pascual, Samantha Lee, Christine Bersola-Babao, Rajo Laurel, Tim
Yap, Anne Curtis, Mari Jasmine, Laureen Uy, Pia Wurtzbach, Lorenzo Tañada III, Vice
Ganda, Arnold Van Opstal, and Chel Diokno.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
In March 2018, a small group of Christians protested at the Senate against the SOGIE bill by calling
the proposed legislation an "abomination", adding that homosexuality is a "sin" citing that their hate
is justified because it is written in the Bible and that identifying as part of the LGBT community is a
lifestyle.[23] The group also claimed that the bill relates to same-sex marriage, which is not found
anywhere within the bill.[24] Senators Villanueva, Gatchalian, and Villar spoke against same-sex
marriage after the protest. [25] In May 2018, senator Tito Sotto, who opposes the SOGIE bill, became
the new Senate President. In an interview, Sotto was asked on the bill's passage, to which he
responded, "Not in this congress."[11]
In July 2018, various high-profile celebrities rallied for the passage of the SOGIE bill. They also
called out senators Sotto, Pacquiao, and Villanueva to end the debates and pass the proposed
legislation.[15] In August 2018, at the height of the bill's postponed debates, various discrimination
incidents against the Filipino LGBT community surfaced, causing public calling for the passage of
the SOGIE Equality Bill in the Senate. [26][27] Numerous influential personalities, including political allies
of the three senators who oppose the bill, sided with the calls to pass the landmark proposal. [19][26][9]
In January 2019, fake news and chain mail[28] claiming that there are "Satanic" [29] and "same-sex
marriage" provisions in the SOGIE bill began circulating as a move to impede the bill's progress.
[30]
 The actual bill does not have any Satanic or same-sex marriage provisions.[31]
In May 2019, the SOGIE Equality Bill officially became the longest-running bill under the Senate
interpellation period in Philippine history. Supporters of the bill have remarked that the prolonged
interpellation was intended by the dissenters to block the passage of the historic anti-discrimination
bill.[32] The bill's principal author and sponsor in the Senate, senator Risa Hontiveros, called on her
Senate colleagues to formally close the question period so that the bill can be open for amendments
and voting.[32] In June 2019, with the end of the session of the 17th Congress, the SOGIE Equality Bill
prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression—after the
lawmakers failed to tackle the bill in this session of the Senate of the Philippines. The Senate version
of the bill was first filed on August 11, 2016. It was sponsored by Risa Hontiveros on December 14
of the same year. The bill has become one of the slowest-moving bills in the country's history. The
passed House version of the bill would have penalised discrimination with a fine of not less than
₱100,000 but not more than ₱500,000, or imprisonment of not less than one year but not more than
six years or both, depending on the court's decision. [33] However, she said the bill had gained new
allies and wider acceptance among policy makers and the public and that she is confident the bill will
pass in the next Congress.[34] The bill was archived, and the bill must be refiled in the 18th Congress,
restarting the one to three-year process of enactment. [32][35]
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RA 10121- PDRRM Act of 2010

What is GAD CMO 1 2015?

1, Series of 2015, which is “Establishing the Policies and Guidelines on Gender and
Development in the Commission on Higher Education and Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs).” The goal of CMO is very strong and clear, that is, “to ensure that
there is gender equality in Philippine higher education.”
What is Gender and Development in the Philippines?

What is Gender and Development? Philippine Commission on Women defined

Gender and Development as the development perspective and process that
is participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence,
respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of
human potentials.
What is Gender and Development? Philippine Commission on Women defined Gender
and Development as the development perspective and process that is participatory and
empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights,
supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials.
The purpose of GAD is to ensure that both men and women can participate in, and
benefit from, development in a way that is equitable. In view of widespread disparities it is a
process comprising both short-term and long-term objectives - "practical and strategic needs"
(Molyneux from Moser, 1993).
Gender mainstreaming is an approach to policy-making that takes into account both
women's and men's interests and concerns. The concept of gender mainstreaming was first
introduced at the 1985 Nairobi World Conference on Women.

What is Republic Act 10121 all about?

RA 10121 provides a comprehensive, all-hazard, multi-sectoral, inter-

agency, and community-based approach to disaster risk management through
the formulation of the National Disaster Risk Management Framework. ... It inhibits
the full participation of the Local Government Units (LGUs) and communities in
governance. This Act provides for the development of policies and plans and the
implementation of actions and measures pertaining to all aspects of disaster risk
reduction and management, including good governance, risk assessment and early warning,
knowledge building and awareness raising, reducing underlying risk factors, and ...
What are the prohibited acts in RA 10121?

Prohibited acts
 Dereliction of duties which leads to destruction, loss of lives, critical damage of
facilities, and misuse of funds;
 Preventing the entry as well as the distribution of relief goods in disaster-stricken
areas, including appropriate technology, tools, equipment, accessories, disaster
teams/experts;
Salient Points of the PDRRM Act of 2010 or RA 10121 Section 16. Declaration of State of
Calamity - the declaration and lifting of the state of calamity may also be issued by the
local sanggunian, upon the recommendation of the LDRRMC, based on the results of the
damage assessment and needs analysis. Republic Act No. 10121 or the Philippine Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (DRRM Act) is a law which transforms the
Philippines' disaster management system from disaster relief and response towards
disaster risk reduction (DRR). ... It assumed that disasters cannot be avoided.

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