Mike Jerome S.

Andaya UP-FA1-BSEE2-01

GEN 006: ETHICS

Lesson 12: Research Exploration/ Annotation Activity

The Sogie bill is the longest running-bill in Senate interpellation.

SOGIE, 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.

The SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression) equality bill, also
known as the Anti-Discrimination Bill, seeks to protect individuals against sex and
gender-based discrimination, which include denial of access to public
services, health services, employment, and education.

The lower house has passed the bill which is great.

The next thing is for it to be included in the senate’s agenda. If this happens, it’s
going to be the longest the bill has reached in the history of the Philippines. If
not, the bill goes back to sleep until the new congress.

The truth is the bill has a lot of enemies in the senate, who express loud
opposition and hate for the bill.

Senator Manny Pacquiao, Senator Villanueva, among others, including Senator

Tito Sotto, the senate president seems oppose to the bill.

Sogie bill when passed into law will protect the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender) from discriminatory acts such as:

 Denial of access to public services

 Including SOGIE as criteria for hiring or dismissal of workers
 Refusing admission or expelling students from schools based on
SOGIE
  Imposing disciplinary actions that are harsher than customary due to
the student’s SOGIE
 Refusing or revoking the accreditation of organizations based on the
SOGIE of members
 Denying access to health services
 Denying the application for professional licenses and similar
documents
 Denying access to establishments, facilities, and services open to the
general public
 Forcing a person to undertake any medical or psychological
examination to determine or alter one’s SOGIE
 Harassment committed by persons involved in law enforcement
 Publishing information intended to “out” or reveal the SOGIE of a
person without consent
 Engaging in public speaking which intends to shame or ridicule LGBT
persons
 Subjecting persons to harassment motivated by the offender’s bias
against the offended party’s SOGIE, which may come in the form of
any medium, including telecommunications and social media
 Subjecting any person to gender profiling
 Preventing a child under parental authority from expressing one’s
SOGIE by inflicting or threatening to inflict bodily or physical harm or
by causing mental or emotional suffering.

Therefore, I agree on the passing of this bill, because we all have equal rights in
our society.