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Agender - A person that does not identify with any gender and
doesn’t follow any expectations of one.
Asexual - Not sexually attracted to either men or women.
Bisexual - A person who is attracted to men and women.
Cisgender - Used for someone who identifies as the sex they were
assigned at birth.
Cross-Dresser - Someone who wears the clothes of or dresses like
the gender they were not assigned at birth.

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Gender Identity - What a person internalizes as their gender,
regardless of their external appearance.
Gender Expression - One’s external manifestation of gender. Can be
seen in the name used, pronouns preferred clothing, hairstyle, voice,
and behavior.
Genderfluid - A person’s gender identity is fluid, malleable, and, open
to change, based on both the individual and their surroundings.
Intersex - Typically describes those who have the reproductive or
sexual anatomy or chromosome pattern that do not strictly fall under
male or female.

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Queer - An umbrella term used for anyone who doesn’t identify as
straight.
Questioning - Individuals who are unsure of their sexual orientation
and/or gender identity.
Transition - The process of altering one’s birth sex.
Transgender - An umbrella term used for those who identify as a
gender different from what they were assigned at birth.
Transsexual - Refers to people who have permanently changed or
seek to change their bodies to suit their gender identity.

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 LGBTQ History

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 Lesbianism - The word had been associated with the works of
Sappho, an ancient Greek woman from the island of Lesbos who
wrote poems about same-gender passion.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs – In 1862, a German lawyer and writer who
may have identified as gay, was the first to try to label his own
communityand used the term “Urning” to refer to men who were
attracted to men.

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Karoly Maria Kertbeny - Austro-Hungarian journalist who coined
the term heterosexual, referring to those who are attracted to
people of the opposite gender, and bisexual, which referred to
people attracted to both men and women.
Virginia Prince - a male who has lived socially as a woman who
coined the term "transgender“.

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Gregory Coles - Writes that it “can be read as at once pejorative
and honorific,” depending on the speaker’s identity and intention.
Scholars largely consider the use of “queer” as one of reclamation.

Rodney Wilson - a history teacher at a Missouri high school USA

who founded LGBTQ+ History Month in 1994.

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73% of adult Filipinos agree that homosexuality should be
accepted by society.

Ranked 2
nd most gay-friendly country in Asia-Pacific, with the Metro
Manila Pride March being the largest and oldest Pride demonstration in
Southeast Asia.

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A study by the United Nations (UN) reveals that 30%
of the LGBT
community in the Philippines reported being harassed, bullied, or
discriminated against at the workplace.

21% reported being denied a job because of their sexual orientation.

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 SOGIE
▪ Anti-Discrimination Bill or the Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill.
▪ The bill recognizes the fundamental right of every person to be
free from any form of discrimination regardless of sex, age, class,
status, ethnicity, color, disability, religious and political beliefs,
and sexual orientation or gender identity.

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 HISTORY
▪ Late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago and former Akbayan
Representative Loretta Rosales initially filed the bill in 2000 under
the 11th Congress.
▪ The SOGIE Equality Bill was refiled in the 14th, 15th, and 16th
Congress but only reached the committee level.

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 HISTORY
▪ In 2016, Senator Risa Hontiveros filed the first Senate version of
the Anti-Discrimination Bill. A year after, the bill was passed by
the 17th Congress on its third and final reading with a 197-0 vote
in the House of Representatives.
▪ In 2018, Senators Loren Legarda, Ralph Recto, Franklin Drilon,
and Juan Miguel Zubiri expressed support for the bill while
Senators Manny Pacquiao, Joel Villanueva, and Tito Sotto
opposed it.

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 HISTORY
▪ In 2019, the Anti-Discrimination Bill was due for passage before
the 17th Congress adjourned but languished after three years of
interpellations.

▪ After two decades, the proposed law has yet to be legislated.

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 ADVANTAGES
▪ It advocates for equality and fairness not only to LGBTQ members
but also to every person in the country.
▪ It seeks to control the behavior and perception of the general
public towards others based on sexual orientation.
▪ The LGBTQ members will have access to hospital services and
other facilities without fear of discrimination.

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 DISADVANTAGES
• The law could be used by LGBTQ members to threaten other people
that may not agree to their terms.
• The draft seeks to undermine religious and academic freedoms and
principles.
• Transgender will go beyond the bounds of standard behavior and
moral principle.

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 MCC acknowledges the diversity of backgrounds and
experiences in the institution and will not tolerate behaviors
that discriminate against students and personnel based on
gender and sexual orientation.

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 PURPOSE
▪ To promote an educational and work environment that is
welcoming, safe, and free from discrimination and stigma for all
students and personnel, regardless of sex, gender identity, race,
gender expression, and sexual orientation;
▪ To ensure that all students and personnel have the opportunity to
express themselves and live authentically.

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MCC shall:
▪ Ensure that all students and personnel of the institution are
treated with respect and dignity;
▪ Apply standards that enforce zero tolerance of discriminative
behaviors based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity;
▪ Apply standards that enforce a zero tolerance of violence against
the LGBTQ+ based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity;
▪ Acknowledge and respond to the diverse needs, identities, and
strengths of all students;
▪
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MCC shall:
▪ Encourage empathy and fairness towards others;
▪Challenge stereotypes that promote prejudicial and biased
behaviors and practices;
▪Provide the students/personnel with counseling support;
▪Ensure that all students and personnel have the right to participate
in any school activities/school program;

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MCC shall:
▪ Any student and personnel may be addressed in the title and
pronoun he/she prefers in all communications, correspondences,
and citations
▪ Be celebrating Pride Month every June in order to be one with the
LGBTQ+ in asserting their rights.

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 “EQUALITY has no GENDER”
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