In the continuation of the Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity or Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill’s journey in the Senate, the Senate President Vicente
Sotto fired another salvo that tends to further diminish the chances of it being a
law.
Its champion and advocate senator Risa Hontiveros made
a statement that the bill has the number of supporters in the senate for it to
be a law, but Senate President Vicente Sotto III begs to differ.
Sotto, who is one of the staunchest opposing the
Hontivero’s SOGIE bill, said atleast 15 senators have already declared they
would not support the SOGIE Equality Bill.
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| Senate President Vicente Sotto III and opposition senator Risa Hontiveros (photo credit to owner) |
“We have
studied this proposition already, there is no need for it. It is a redundancy.
All Filipinos and everyone in the Philippines are equally protected by equal
rights and all the rights that are given any individual in the Philippines.
There are enough laws that cover the particular issues that they are talking
about,” Sotto said in a press conference.
The Senate
President also took a swipe at the transgender community anew, claiming the
term does not appear in the dictionary.
“Hindi ko
maintindihan kung paano nila nabaluktot yun, na gamitin yun, na naging
transgender ang paggamit, yung trans woman, trans man, ikinalulungkot ko, pero
hanap ako ng hanap sa dictionary, walang word na trans woman. Lahat ng
dictionary hinanap ko, wala. Wala ring trans man. So, saan galing? In other
words, nagdeviate nang masyado,” he claimed.
The Senate
president provided media with both definitions;
-OxfordDictionaries.com
defines transgender as "denoting or relating to a person whose sense of
personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex."
-Merriam-webster.com,
meanwhile, defines a trans woman as "a woman who was identified as male at
birth", and trans man as "a man who was identified as female at
birth".
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