#SOGI in schools

[auressea]

"British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner, Kasari Govender, called the anti-LGBTQ marches “hate-fuelled” and said while peaceful demonstration protects democracy and generates debate, the human rights of the trans and LGBTQ community “is not up for debate.”

She said in a statement Tuesday that an inquiry by her office showed almost two-thirds of LGBTQ students don't feel safe at school, compared with 11 per cent of heterosexual students, and attempts to erase them from school curriculums are hateful.

Worthman said politicians, too, “should be louder” about their support for the LGBTQ community, and against individuals who seek to further marginalize members.

Clint Johnston, the president of the BC Teachers' Federation, wrote a letter to B.C. Premier David Eby about the union's concerns about the planned protests.

He said they're part of a co-ordinated attack against the trans and LGBTQ community.

“These rallies are part of a movement across North America that uses 'parental consent' as a dog whistle for rising homophobia and transphobia. This movement is concerning and must be stopped,” he said in the letter.

In response, the premier said school must be a place where every student feels secure and it's upsetting to see misinformation and disinformation used to attack vulnerable children and youth.

“Without hesitation, I denounce threats, hate and violence against 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. We are seeing a concerning rise in incidents where trans people are being targeted with threats and violence in person and online,” Eby said in the statement."

[fixomnia-scribble]

Well done, Canada. From the coverage I've seen so far, the message was sent home loud and clear in cities across the country. There's a huge amount of work to be done, but for now, REST, and re-energize.

[astrxealis]

got another person into granblue fantasy, an old friend B)

[filenameghost]

I get to partake in a bake sale tomorrow and I am so hexcited :3 it is my first time participating in such an event and although it seems like. not a big deal to most ppl it's a High School Experience I saw in The Movies that I am glad I will get to enjoy :)

[damnicantcontroltheweather]

BEEFING with the BC conservatives rn as we speak

[thearbourist]

Parents & Teachers - Educate Yourself about SOGI 123

Find out exactly what SOGI is and how (if) it is being taught to your children.   Huge red flag right off the bat when you visit the website.  It states – “Everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity.”  Gender identity is the risible bullshit that the activist Left is attempting to enforce and codify into our society.  Gender, simply, are the stereotypes associated with the sexes.  Most…

[auressea]

please SHOW up to make your support for Good Sex Ed, and access to information about gender and orientation in schools. keep the SOGI fearmongers out of our schools.

BUT ALSO- this 'protest'- is a smoke screen for VIOLENT TRANSPHOBES to push their DeSantis style agenda.

This is the thin edge of the wedge people! They will slippery slope their way into YOUR neighborhood.

while you're at it: go to the MANY MANY websites and FB pages by these White Supremacist Authoritarian bigots and the Christian Rightwingers who love them and REPORT them for hate speech:

here's something about the 1 million march 4 children thing (the nationwide(?) anti-lgbt education marches/demonstrations(?)) - counter protests are being organised! here's an instagram post about it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxHTWihOLBV/

and as mentioned in the post a master doc of counter-protests can be found at bit.ly/protestlist

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[communistkenobi]

you attend a pro-Palestine demonstration and across the street are fascists calling for the execution of trudeau and the UN SOGI expert because school teachers say the word transgender in their classrooms. sometimes history lays itself bare at your feet

[petitmonde]

I'm sharing Jade's prom story from her Twitter thread. You can read it here and share it around. I'm putting it under a read more since it's quite long, but it's definitely worth reading every single word that she wrote. If you want to read more or get involved with LGBTQ+ rights, I have linked a few organisations that do great work in the Philippines.

LGBTQ+ Organisations in the Philippines

Bahaghari – national alliance of LGBT+ advocates, organisations, and formations. You can sign the petition for their anti discrimination bill SOGIE right here.

LoveYourself – an organisation that promotes HIV awareness, testing, and treatment. They also have resources available for those seeking help to transition.

UP Babaylan – The oldest LGBT+ student organisation in the Philippines.

LakanBini Advocates Pilipinas – A network of transgender organisations. They focus on health, psychosocial well-being, and human rights.

Rainbow Rights – A nonprofit NGO that focuses on legal literacy and empowerment with respect to SOGIE laws and policies.

Proud Campaign Philippines – Not only do they raise awareness of SOGIE, but they also help Filipinos in need with food, clothes, toiletries, and other necessities.

🩶 State Of The Dollification Address 🩶

I have 3 prom stories that I’ve experienced and here to tell all of y’all! I am now using my voice and platform to raise awareness, for humanity’s maturity and for the betterment of inclusive schools. ‼️

I want to say to ALL schools out there! No matter what Sexual Orientation, Gender Indentity & Expression. Students has the right to have equal knowledge and experience with schools and campus. As long as oppression and discrimination is still happening in today’s world, this is a sign that we are not yet treated as equal.

#PassSOGIEBillNow #TransYouthAreValid #TransWomenAreWomen #TransLivesMatter

#DollShenanigans #DollDomination #Dollification #SuSos #TeamM1ssJadeSo

My first ever Prom that I’ve attended way back Feb 13, 2016. I got invited by a guy from an all boys school. He sponsored everything from the gown, ticket and transportation. Everything went well, I attended their prom as the WOMAN THAT I AM. It was magical, fun and romantic. I greeted some people in the event, ate, had a romantic dance with the guy and also partied a little bit, we went home safe (take note: our driver is his Dad). So happy with this experience I got to live just by being me.

I met some Queer people and some of them are now Trans Women from that school, last year 2022. They told me that I was so iconic, that the administrators, teachers, pastors are triggered by my presence that night. They had to call every Queer people in their school just to have a prayer/mass session to pray the gay away. It was so sad, they couldn’t fight, they just told me that they love and look up to me for my bravery and courage from that night. I hope they are now healed from that trauma.

Going back to March 2016, for our Moving-Up Ball in my school. Everyone is excited as we are about to enter Senior High School (the first batch of SHS) and Junior High School is about to end. I’m very excited about it because it’s going to be our last Ball/Party of our whole batch. I am thinking to myself that this is going to be my coming out moment as a Trans Woman. I immediately thought of wearing a dress and wearing a wig because my hair is too short for the vision of my full bloom woman.

Days before the Ball, I asked my adviser politely if I can go to the event wearing a dress as the woman that I am. She said “No, naiintindihan naman namin ang gusto mo, “Girl” na nga ang tawag ko sayo (as tinatawag niya kong “bakla” before) pero sa college mo na yan gawin, masyado ka pang bata. Malay mo mag-iba pa panananaw mo at maging lalake ka talaga (she laughed)”. I cried it out going home that day. Translation: “No, we understand what you want, I’m already calling you “Girl” (as she calls me “Gay” before). Do it in college instead, you are too young. Maybe you might change your perspective and become a man one day (she laughed).

The day of the event started… I did my friend’s makeup, as I am a makeup artist before. I started doing their makeup during lunch time and ended really well. My sister and mom helped by putting their dresses and curling their hair. 5 girl friends of mine are very happy with the results. I have a lot of memories with them I cherish and miss them now. Hi Aira, Ela, Elriva, Kirstine & Lubna.

I was so tired and had to glam myself up too. I wore a 30 inch black silky straight wig, white cocktail dress from my sister and black thigh high boots.

We went to the moving-up ball with my friend’s driver. My mom joined us because she wanted to explain something. As we got into the event, they immediately stopped me from entering. A teacher told me that I cannot enter, and they let me talk to my adviser and some of my teachers, they said “Jade, sinabihan ka na namin… You can’t wear this here. Magpalit ka ng suit na panglalake, para papasukin ka pa namin, maaga pa naman may time ka pa magpalit, Go na.” Translation: “Jade, we told you about this… You can’t wear this here. Change it to a Men’s suit, so that we can let you enter, it’s still early, you have time to change, Go for it.”

I told them I wanna talk to the principal. They let me talk with the principal and I explained the definition of Transgender and explaining that I am a Trans Woman. She refused, my mom talked to the principal and explained that I am a Trans Woman and I wanted to make this last moment of my JHS as the woman that I am. My mom said “Payagan niyo po sana yung anak ko na makapasok, kasi po babae po siya and yan po ang gusto niyang damit. Pangarap niya po yan”. Translation: “I hope you allow my daughter to get in, She is a woman and that’s how she wanted to dress up. That’s her dream.”

They still said no and change my outfit to a suit or anything na “panglalake” or “Men’s wear”. I lost hope at that moment, I saw my mom crying because how heart broken she is. I immediately cried too and said “Mama, umuwi kana ako na lang mag stay dito and ilalaban ko to. Ayoko na makita ka umiiyak”. Translation: “Mom, Please go home, I’m going to stay here and I will fight for this.”

She invited me to go home too but I said I needed to stay, this is something I think that is right. She went home and I started bursting out of tears, I was sobbing and fully destroyed. As a protest, I’m going to stay here until they let me in. There were feedbacks that they can hear me sobbing inside the event. My classmates comforted me, they took turns to accompany me outside. As the event is going through my classmates are slowly getting inside, they brought me food, talk to me nicely, my whole class went to me outside and took a class picture. Teachers that are close to my heart went outside to accompany too. And there’s this one teacher stayed with me the whole night outside and she said; “Malayo pa tayo sa pinapaglaban natin, pero gusto kong malaman mo na tama ka Jade, tama ang pinaglalaban mo, ikaw yan eh. Balang araw matatanggap ng lipunan natin ang isang katulad mo. Salamat sa pag-laban kung sino ka.” Translation: “We are far from what we are fighting for, but I want you to know that you are in the right track, that’s the real you! The time will come that our society will accept the people like you, thank you for fighting for being who you are”.

She said so many inspiring words that uplifted me. Take note: she’s an Araling Panlipunan teacher. Hi M1ss Meann Salimbangon, you deserve the love from this world. I love you so much, I will never forget you! You’re a treasure for me. She told me she won’t leave me outside until I get home safe. My friend’s driver offered a ride to get me home safe. I went home when that after party started. I was so tired and cried myself to sleep.

April 2016, our Moving-up Ceremony. Advisers are announcing that “No “proper” haircut for boys are not allowed get the diploma on stage. But instead, they will give the diploma a week after (together with our report card). I informed my adviser that I can’t cut my hair because I identify as a Trans Woman and I would like to get my diploma as how my hair is growing now. She refused, so i decided to not to go through. I did the Moving-up ceremony rehearsal for nothing. I informed my Mom that I can’t go to the stage because of my haircut. She was sad that she won’t see me receiving my diploma. I attend our moving-up ceremony with the parents of my friends, I was sitting in the parents section wearing a BLONDE FUCCING HAIR, full leather look with my y2k hidden wedge sneakers lol.

My head was heated seeing these boys in our school DIDN’T GOT THE PROPER HAIRCUT and got their diploma on stage. I immediately thought that the advise and requirement is just targeted for me or for the Queer people in my school ONLY. They were just oppressing us.

When it’s my time to get the diploma they called my name on stage flashed my photo to the screen. I stood up with my head up high, from the parent’s section. Everyone was looking at me, my friend cheered and screamed for me, the parents were clapping. It was a fuccing moment (just like a Pose episode) 🤣

Finally the nightmare era from that school was over, there is much more stories to tell. But it’s to long to share, so many bullying and oppressing issues that I experienced. I know it’s a Catholic school, but is it a requirement for Catholics to hate and oppress Trans Individuals like me? And the LGBTQIA+ community, if there are more issues (I knew it’s not just me 😌).

Moving forward, I searched for the right school to enroll for my Senior High School and that is iAcademy! I really really love this school so much, they accepted, acknowledged, and loved me. This is the first time I felt seen, heard & valued by a school. They let me wear what I want, let me my hair grew, it is so long that it touches my butt. I was openly proud Trans Individual, I even got a romantic relationship with a classmate (part of my growing process).

Fast forward for our Grad Ball and Graduation Ceremony. The MOMENT I’ve been waiting my whole life was to attend our Graduation Ball. I wore the MOST HUGE ROYAL BLUE CINDERELLA-LIKE BALL GOWN WITH FEATHERS AROUND, LEAVING SOME FEATHER TRACKS WHEREVER I GO, WITH A FUCCING CROWN, because I already knew I am a fuccing QUEEN. I won best dressed of the night from the female category. They gave me a 10-min moment to share my JHS Prom experience and I am thankful for this inclusive school and being an LGBTQIA+ ally. I was so happy I could die. This moment will last forever and to the herstory of iAcademy.

For our Graduation ceremony I wore the highest heels that I owned and a red cunty dress to my Graduation. I got my diploma on stage, strutting myself like the sexiest, cuntiest & baddest student on Earth.

[aloeverawrites]

Biden and Trump are the same you say.

Trump wants to destroy the left. Biden is considered center-left wing.

These are quotes from the Mandate of Leadership, the promise that conservatives are going to try and fulfill if they get power again.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.

Right now Biden is in power. So the time we're under him must be the same as being under a government that believes this:

"children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens"

"Overseas, a totalitarian Communist dictatorship in Beijing is engaged in a strategic, cultural, and economic Cold War against America’s interests, values, and people—all while globalist elites in Washington awaken only slowly to that growing threat."

Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s “radical chic” to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening.”

"Most alarming of all, the very moral foundations of our society are in peril. Yet students of history will note that, notwithstanding all those challenges, the late 1970s proved to be the moment when the political Right unified itself and the country and led the United States to historic political, economic, and global victories.

The Heritage Foundation is proud to have played a small but pivotal role in that story. It was in early 1979—amid stagflation, gas lines, and the Red Army’s invasion of Afghanistan, the nadir of Jimmy Carter’s days of malaise—that Heritage launched the Mandate for Leadership project.

"Conservatives should be confident that we can rescue our kids, reclaim our culture, revive our economy, and defeat the anti-American Left—at home and abroad. We did it before and will do it again.

"This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country from the brink of disaster.

The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work. But as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement. As such, the authors express consensus recommendations already forged, especially along four broad fronts that will decide America’s future:"

"The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists"

"In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children’s education is a simple one:

Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice—a goal all conservatives and conservative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents’ rights as their children’s primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds. The noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country"

"they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women. Allowing parents or physicians to “reassign” the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end."

"But the pro-family promises expressed in this book, and central to the next conservative President’s agenda, must go much further than the traditional, narrow definition of “family issues.” Every threat to family stability must be confronted".

"Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children. But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America. In particular, the next conservative President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion."

"-A combination of elected and unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency quietly strangles domestic energy production through difficult-to-understand rulemaking processes; "Bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security, following the lead of a feckless Administration, order border and immigration enforcement agencies to help migrants criminally enter our country with impunity;

-Bureaucrats at the Department of Education inject racist, anti-American, ahistorical propaganda into America’s classrooms

-Bureaucrats at the Department of Justice force school districts to undermine girls’ sports and parents’ rights to satisfy transgender extremists;

-Woke bureaucrats at the Pentagon force troops to attend “training” seminars about “white privilege”; and

-Bureaucrats at the State Department infuse U.S. foreign aid programs with woke extremism about “intersectionality” and abortion."

So, the year is 2025. Every mention of "sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights" has been erased from our laws.

Abortion is crminalised across the country.

Schools can't teach about being trans, gay or about race.

Parental control over their children's and teenagers education is absolute.

A cold war is "won" following in the footsteps of Ronald Regan.

The environmental protection agency has been targeted and domestic energy production, fossil fuels, are safe.

There has been a further crack down on migrants entering the country "illegally".

Federal programs that teach about intersectionality, abortion or white privileged have bene shut down.

And "transgender extremists" are no longer allowed to "control" women's sports.

A world where they have fulfilled their promise to reverse every human rights progress Biden has made and ensure that nothing as "liberal" happens again.

Oh and "[Trump's]  Republican rivals for the 2024 presidential nomination competed with one another to show who could be more vicious in encouraging uninhibited Israeli military action in Gaza,"

" Trump has also used the Israel-Hamas War to reinforce his positions on other issues remote from the conflict itself, particularly his hostility to Muslim refugees, making it clear that Gazans (and, likely, Muslims generally) would be stopped from entering the U.S. if he is reelected." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/trump-israel-hamas-stance.html

Is that the world you want to live in in 2025?

[personnotfound]

if you don't vote, someone still gets to be president

idk, i see a lot of people talking about the election and criticizing the democratic candidates, which is great, please do that, but please also acknowledge the stakes and the context here. If you're saying talking about something horrible the dems have done/are doing, and saying not to vote for them because of it, then at least let it be a criticism that does not also apply tenfold to the republicans. Because SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE PRESIDENT. It's one or the other. Realistically, it is Trump, or it is Harris. Convincing people not to vote for Harris is advocating for Trump to win. Period. End of. That is what you are doing.

Since I am going over project 2025 - which was written by some very good friends of Trump, and which the man himself has tried to distance himself from without actually addressing any of the contents of the document itself, which align quite well with how he talks about his values and intentions - here are some quotes i have selected to contextualize the stakes of this election (under the cut for length and tw for transphobia, misogyny, )

If you are trans, here is what they think of us, "Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries" (from the foreward by Kevin D Roberts, PhD, on page 1. Kevin is the president of The Heritage Foundation, which describes itself under the 'membership' tab of their 'about' page on their website as the "most influential conservative group in america")

and here are a few of the policies they would like to inact in regards to us, "Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service, and the use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for servicemembers should be ended." (Page 104),

"Reissue a stronger transgender national coverage determination. CMS should repromulgate its 2016 decision that CMS could not issue a National Coverage Determination (NCD) regarding “gender reassignment surgery” for Medicare beneficiaries. In doing so, CMS should acknowledge the growing body of evidence that such interventions are dangerous and acknowledge that there is insufficient scientific evidence to support such coverage in state plans." (Page 474)

"Restrict the application of Bostock. The new Administration should restrict Bostock’s application of sex discrimination protections to sexualorientation and transgender status in the context of hiring and firing" (Bostock in this context is a legal case regarding workers protections against discrimination in the workplace, this is page 584 saying that they would like it to be legal to fire people for being trans)

Or how about this from pages 4-5, "The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civilsociety hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion(“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi-tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists." Still the foreward there, same author. Literally calling to restrict speech in the name of 'freedom of speech'. Some irony there. The next paragraph starts by describing 'transgender ideology' (the existence of trans people) as 'pornography'.

Page 5, literally the next paragraph. "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

How are we feeling? But what about foreign policy? What about Palestine?

Page 94 reads, "Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively"

That does not sound like pulling support from Israel to me.

Oh, also on page 94 is this, "Implement nuclear modernization and expansion. The United States manifestly needs to modernize, adapt, and expand its nuclear arsenal. Russia maintains and is actively brandishing a very large nuclear arsenal, but China is also undertaking a historic nuclear breakout."

Because what we definitely 100% need is more military spending on nuclear weapons. I also cannot help reading that in connection to Palestine, Israel, and our country's allyship with Israel.

I'm getting stressed. I have linked the full document below. Please look up these quotes yourself, check my work, read the context for yourself. Decide for yourself if you feel I have been unfair. Decide for yourself which of the two sets of options is going to do the least damage. Because remember, it's not just the one person you're voting for. The president gets to appoint the people who run the rest of the government. The people Trump likes very much wrote this document.

Please do not play games with weather or not I can be fired from my job for being trans. Please do not play games with my access to healthcare.

It is horrific that we do not have a choice that will end US support for the genocide going on right now. But that choice isn't on the table. Our choices are genocidal fascist or a lot less genocidal fascist.

[mylittlesecrethaven]

I Read Project 2025, So Here's A Rundown I Guess: Part 1.1

Idk if this counts as political, but I'm just reading the stupid book online and putting down what it basically says and some other stuff i Guess. (it could get political I guess? Idk. Just kinda wanted to make these posts since I'm reading the book and I kept getting annoyed with people just saying what the book says instead of writing down exactly what it says and what page to find it on in videos over the book)

(That's not saying I won't do the same thing, but for some things I'll rewrite what it says unless it just needs to be summarized. I will have page numbers though)

(also, if you want a faster rundown than waiting for me to give shitty interpretations of this, go to the wiki here. it sums it up pretty well, but it doesn't state everything.)

Intro: Part 1

(these are paragraphs from the intro I found that were.... interesting. these are word for word and include page numbers. this is likely the only time i will be using word for word in this series.)

"Today, the American family is in crisis. Forty percent of all children are born to unmarried mothers, including more than 70 percent of black children. There is no government program that can replace the hole in a child's soul cut out by the absence of a father. Fatherlessness is one of the principle sources of American poverty, crime, mental illness, teen suicide, substance abuse, rejection of the church, and high school dropouts. So many of the problems government programs are designed to solver - but can't - are ultimately problems created by the crisis of marriage and the family. The world has never seen a thriving, healthy, free, prosperous society where more children grow up without their married parents. If current trends continue, we are heading toward social implosion."

(Page 4) (basically, if a child grows up without a father, they're doomed to either go into poverty, commit a crime, have a mental illness, commit suicide as a teen, have a substance abuse problem, reject the church, or become a high school dropout. They also state that the world cannot be free, thriving, healthy, or prosperous if every child doesn't have married parents.)

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"The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity ('SOGI'), diversity, equity, and inclusion ('DEI'), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other terms used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of ever federal agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."

(Page 4-5) (basically saying that terms like sexual orientation, gender identity, diversity, equity, inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and other terms like these deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights and that any official piece of paper, like legislation or contacts, shouldn't be allowed to contain them)

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"Pornography manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be claimed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms who facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

(Page 5) (basically saying that porn should be outlawed, those that spread porn should be called sex offenders, and anything related to trans is porn. also that porn inherently targets children, is misogynistic, and is as dangerous as any drug)

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"The noxious tenets of "critical race theory" and "gender ideology" should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral statues yet on the other hand they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in a human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women."

(Page 5 (basically saying that critical race theory and gender ideology are bad for our children and shouldn't be in schools because it teaches kids that their skin color defines their personality yet they cannot use birth sex to define a woman or a man)

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"Allowing parents or physicians to "reassign" the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end. For public institutions to use taxpayer dollars to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races, sexes, and religions is a violation of the Constitution and civil rights laws and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country."

(Page 5) (basically saying that letting kids get gender reassigned surgery is child abuse, then goes on to talk about how using taxpayer dollars to say one race, sex, or religion is superior or inferior is against the Constitution. I'm pretty sure they bring this up to say that by letting someone get gender reassignment surgery means they're saying one sex is superior or inferior, and they throw in race and religion for some reason)

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"Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children. But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washinton, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America. In particular, the next conservative President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion. Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother. Alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support."

(Page 6) (basically saying that overturning roe v. wade was a huge success for conservatives but they should still push to enact more bans on abortion while also recognizing the struggles for women who cannot get abortions who may go through difficult or tragic times. Also says that instead of getting an abortion, you should simply think of adoption, and I'm not too sure if that means they want you to adopt a baby or put your baby into adoption since you couldn't get an abortion. Also, they want to increase funding for adoptions)

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This is a page of 4 complaints I found. I will list them then put a summary for all of them at the end. "Bureaucrats at the Department of Education inject racist, anti-American ahistorical propaganda into America's classrooms" - "Bureaucrats at the Department of Justice force school districts to undermine girls' sports and parents' rights to satisfy transgender extremists" - "Woke bureaucrats at the Pentagon force troops to attend 'training' seminars about 'white privilege'" - "Bureaucrats at the State Department infuse U.S. foreign aid programs with woke extremism about 'intersectionality' and abortion."

(Page 8) (basically saying that 1. the department of education is teaching kids racist materials without given the entire context of the situation, and they call it propaganda, 2. the department of justice is undermining girls' sport and parents' rights in order to favor "transgender extremists," 3. the pentagon is forcing its troops to take training over white privilege, and 4. the state department is injecting foreign aid programs with woke extremism like oppression from gender, race, religion, etc differences and abortion)

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You can tell I had to look words up since they use really big words for some reason.

My summaries might not be exact, but I'm trying.

Remember, this is just the intro, I haven't gotten to their proposed policies.

There's gonna be a part 2 for the intro stuff, it's just that it's midnight and this post is long enough already.

Please let me know if I got anything wrong. I added summaries cause I barely understood what they were saying anyway.

(i did not check this post later as it's really long and I'm not doing that to myself. if you spot any misspellings or anything, please let me know and I will fix it)

[zee-man-chatter]

The silent majority has had enough! We are Brothers and Sisters in Humanity, coming together for the common goal of protecting our children against premature sexualization and potentially harmful indoctrination.

Uniting diverse backgrounds and faiths, we share a resolute purpose: advocating for the elimination of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) curriculum, pronouns, gender ideology and mixed bathrooms in schools.

As a symbol of our commitment, students are encouraged to participate in a nationwide school walkout on that day.

Additionally, major cities across the nation will host march events.

Together, we stand united to safeguard the well-being and innocence of our children.

[graymanbriefing]

Civil Unrest / Societal Collapse / Citizen Actions Brief: National Summary In Pennsylvania; 300+ students at the Perkiomen Valley School District conducted a "walkout" in protest against the district's policy in permitting males who identify as transgender into female's ba...(CLASSIFIED) In NYC, NY; 500+ citizens in Staten Island created a pedestrian blockade to prevent a bus of illegal immigrants from offloading at a taxpayer funded conversion of a senior cit...(CLASSIFIED) An internal communique from U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) obtained by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project found that the service warned of protests "at both the U.S. Supreme Court and Justices’ residences" and that "there have been several acts of property damage, arson, vandalism, and threats/intimidation against federal courthouses, protected persons, as well as private businesses, houses of worship, and reproductive health care services facilities/providers." The message also advised that pro-lif...(CLASSIFIED) In Fort Worth, TX on September 19th; the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club called for fellow members, LGBT activists, and Antifa to conduct a direct action at the court proceedings in a case brought on by the New Columbia Movement (Christian organization). The far-left group directed members to "pack the courtroom" and provided methods on how to conceal their ide...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide; protests calling for secure borders amid a "record" influx of illegal imm...(CLASSIFIED) In Canada; 10,000+ parents protested against LGBT indoctrination in public schools (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or SOGI) during the "Million March 4 Kids" march. "Hands off our Children" and "Freedom Family" organized the event. The events occurred nationwide and were counter-protested by LGBT act...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide, October is "Respect for Life" month. Pro-life protests and res...(CLASSIFIED) 》Continued in comments, see full unredacted briefs by joining us on Telegram or Signal at www.graymanbriefing.com

[kulay-ng-banaag]

As the saying goes, "the personal is political." I think it perfectly encapsulates the meaning of "kasarian" from below the surface.

SOGIESC* Headcanons for HWS Philippines

CW: mature language, mentions of hate violence

*Sexual Orientation + Gender Identity & Expression + Sex Characteristics

If SOGIESC was a new term for you, don't worry, it was relatively new to me as well! SOGIE as an acronym was already cemented into the PH-based lexicon, much of it thanks in part to what would evolve to become the SOGIE Equality Bill. The inclusion of SC I first encountered in my copy of an anthology of PH queer studies (which I opened at last to write this very post out of spite). In retrospect, the intersectionality of the LGBTQIA+ movement and feminism was undeniable.

I intended to solely write on my gender identity & expression (GIE) headcanon for Piri, but further reading led me to realize that within a Philippine context, it was interchangeable with sexual orientation (SO) — and to a degree, sex characteristics (SC). In addition, I did not intend to challenge Western notions of queer theory & its spectrum of labels, only that the framework they provided simply did not fit neatly for the postcolonial conditions that shaped the framework within which the Philippines is situated.

In layman's terms — bakla, gay, and bisexual were all situated within the same spectrum, even if by all Western definitions they should not. It's very messy! But hey, it lived up to the dictionary definition of "queer" (though it must be reiterated that queer as strange/odd/peculiar started out as a pejorative).

All that being said, we would have to temporarily set aside our Western understandings, if not completely unpack and let go altogether, in order to accomplish meaningful PH queer studies. I'm also going to admit that this ended up being so hard to explain in English.

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Speaking of unpacking!

Not me unironically using this iconic GIF of MCU Captain America, of all people!

This should have been a GIE headcanon post but it became more than that. I never felt the need to back my thoughts with academic jargon because, at the end of the day, an individual's gender identity was to be accepted, because the opposite choice was dehumanizing.

But far too often I would swim around the Piri tags only to come out shaking my head in disbelief at the implied iron grip on the gender binary. I understood and wholeheartedly accepted that this was the mere product of our conservative educational upbringing that aimed to uphold a certain image of an ideal society, which, unfortunately, included normalizing the concept of the gender binary. (Cue me side-eyeing my own alma mater.)

It must be understood that it was that very social environment that shaped the characterizations of the fem!Piri OC lore of yore. I entered the fandom in a different creative circle and was not as invested in fanfics (BECAUSE I WAS BORING FOR CARING TOO MUCH ABOUT MY STUDIES) and roleplaying. I could certainly vouch, however, that none of us had the depth of gender discourse that the high-school teenagers of today had.

In fact, much of (Western) queer theory was developed in the 90s — smack when we were born! Aside from the sorely obvious fact that none of us would be capable yet of comprehending such information, it was discourse deemed a threat to the sacred and predominant power structure that was the Roman Catholic Church. Believe me when I say their eagle eyes came with sharp talons.

At that time as well, the internet was at most in the stage of testing the waters as a tool for information dissemination. Facebook/Meta as the social media website we knew it today did not happen until 2008, and that was just the public beta! I still remember my sixth-/seventh-grader batchmates making accounts (read: lying about their age), and most of us (yes, me included) did it so we could play Pet Society. I would argue that this was the moment when the internet began its exponential growth into the daily necessity it evolved into now.

My point here was that none of us — including the creators of all these "Maria Clara" ("Mary Sue") fem!Piri OCs — grew up under the same conditions as did many of you kids today. Chances are, a lot of us had since unpacked all the "problematic characterizations," much of which we only realized at a later point in our lives. It's great to see that some of you had a good grasp on why this and that was nasty, but trust me, just as we had a lot to learn when we were young, so did you youngins of today.

So let me be that person that you found annoying bumped into in the tags telling you that it’s not just perfectly okay to unpack everything you understood up to this very point about gender, but also you ought to because it's the good choice to avoid developing a mindset that echoes sexist lines of thinking. By all accounts, I would be treating sexism as an umbrella term to include misogyny, misandry, and transphobia.

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I was never a fan of hypersexual relationship dynamics between the Philippines and Spain, America, and/or Japan. In addition to the bare minimum of the fact that I simply had different perspectives, people were also free to build their own safe corners for their kinks, fetishes, NSFW delusions, whatever they want to call it. While on the topic of kinks, forced feminization was precisely that (a BL kink, if I understood correctly). Neither was I a fan of it, to be perfectly candid here.

What baffled me was how Piri as canonically female was automatically an act of forced feminization, an enactment of a (BL) kink. If that really was someone's thing, then okay cool. As long as you never clashed with my circus, I literally would not care about what went on in yours. By "not care," I meant to say that I had nothing to offer that would be of any benefit to your welfare (saying this because people ironically weaponized the phrase so carelessly).

Bluntly, I was taken aback by the implied belief that existing as a woman, AFAB or otherwise, automatically guaranteed that you were nothing more than an object of carnal pleasure to the opposite sex. I could see the rice grain of truth to the fandom's concerns because we still very much lived that reality up to this day of age. I hate it too!

We could accept an ugly reality and condemn it. If acceptance was acknowledging that there was a real, ongoing problem instead of continuing to pretend that it did not exist, then the condemnation of that problem was the outright declaration of why we must all act to put an end to the problem.

My primary concern was that the repetitive claims of female Piri as fetishistic seemed to imply not an underlying condemnation of the sexist conditions against Filipino women, but rather a tragically apathetic approval of it. As a Filipino woman myself, that scared me as much as having to live my daily commutes constantly on alert for any cishet men out to do whatever God/Allah/Buddha/Brahma/etc. had forbidden us to do to one another (funny how most of these higher beings were male).

On the other hand, I would quip that the fandom was a microcosm of the gap in women's history (herstory, if you would).

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I hoped you noted by now how I typed "AFAB or otherwise" earlier. This was where I spoke not just as a Filipino woman, but also as a queer Filipino woman.

I once had to see someone in the fandom respond to another explaining English-language pronouns as how "that's so Liberal American." We put them in our bios to prevent violent reactions the likes of what happened with Jennifer Laude. 🕯🏳️‍⚧️

Neither was I a fan of the strange implication that men, AMAB or otherwise, were perfectly immune to the negative implications of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy at large. They were not, and all the more if they fell within the queer umbrella.

Sex, consensual or not, knows no genitalia boundaries. In other words, your sex characteristics will not stop the possibility of sexual harassment by other people, regardless of their gender, assigned or not. If I were to go into further detail, I would have to explicitly discuss trigger topics.

The initial, (emotionally) violent reactions over the teased reveal of canon Philippines proved disappointing but not surprising. Jokes on y'all, the fem Piri OC y'all grew up with was just his dragsona all this time. Or heck, Piri was trans (FTM). I'd rather not say more, but what ended up pushing my buttons was the implication that men were only valid if they liked men things.

As a queer Filipina, I was dead scared of TERFS, and some of y'all would sound like one. 😭💔

I hoped by now you understood how misogyny, misandry, and transphobia intersected. If the shoe happened to fit, let me also be the one to tell you: you don't have to keep it.

Go write down on a piece of paper everything you knew about girls vs. boys (how they should behave or not, what they should wear or not, whatever stereotypes you can think of). Then tear that paper into shreds. Or visualize in your head that gender is a balloon that you’ve simply let go to float away to the endless void beyond our skies (don’t actually do this in real life because those balloons would go somewhere, namely the stomachs of marine fauna).

Even if you picked up on the funny-because-it's-true adage that gender was a social construct, you should do whatever you could to unpack the centralization of the gender binary into how you lived your life and how you treated others. Even if this Hetalia bruhaha was all fiction at the end of the day, sometimes the diction utilized in explaining headcanons (not exclusive to gender identity, but far too often it toed that line) ended up implying that certain beliefs and mindsets were not just the status quo, but also a status quo not to be challenged.

I hated that. All the more as a queer Filipina myself, which not only shaped my life experience in this beautiful and damned archipelago but also in how I portrayed Piri.

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Well, you better, because I would rather you not proceed with reading the rest of this post until you did!

The good news was that we were coming up to the headcanon talk itself. Coming up because I felt that I would have to explain first the intricacies of SOGIESC in the Philippines before I could explain where I headcanon Piri to fit.

As I also shared way back up, it entailed shelving all Western notions in the meantime. In the hopes that I would make this easier to digest, we would follow a bottom-up approach of sorts.

Let's start with the all-too-familiar male/female (assigned) gender dichotomy. In Tagalog (and I would be primarily referencing Tagalog because it's my mother tongue): lalaki/babae.

Some of you might already be acquainted with the third gender bakla. A popular theory was that bakla was a compound word of the Tagalog terms babae and lalaki. Other local equivalents included bayot (Cebuano), agi (Akeanon, Hiligaynon), and bantut (Tausug).

In line with the Sikolohiyang Pilipino concept of the loob/labas dichotomy ("inner/outer behavior," colloquially speaking), the loob of the bakla was female while his labas was male.

Btw, the "o" sound in loob is like in "bob. You don't read loob like "boob."

A theory posited was that the bakla was, borrowing Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's trope, the inverse of the lalaki. Was there an inverse for babae? Yes: tomboy. Acknowledging any unwitting ignorance, tomboy would be translated from Tagalog to tibo.

And so we have the four horsemen of the apocalpyse genders: lalaki/babae/bakla/tibo. Was this hierarchically arranged? At least a couple of scholars whose studies I read would argue so.

For headcanon purposes, our focus would be on the lalaki/bakla "binary."

SC: If my drawing him male-assigned tattoos and enough muscle to make him very masc-passing was not enough of a visual explanation, then yes, Piri was AMAB. May panlalaki na katawan siya, ngunit ano naman ang kasarian niya?

A bakla was, by all technicalities, an AMAB individual who exhibited effeminate behavior. I would argue that it was dissimilar from:

Genderfluid. Bakla was in itself a singular, unchanging identity.

Nonbinary. Bakla as an inversion was not as straightforward as equating it to being at least an extension of, if not completely separate from, the gender binary.

Bigender. A Tagalog equivalent for loob was kaluluwa ("soul;" sometimes translated as "psyche" but kaluluwa had a psychospiritual dimension). To translate bakla to a Western audience as being two "loobs" was self-contradictory.

Transgender. In a Philippine context, sexual orientation, or the object of sexual desire, was defined by the labas and not the loob. Arbitrarily speaking, a couple consisting of a trans woman and a cis man would be perceived as an (outwardly) heterosexual relationship, but if it were a bakla and a cis man, the relationship was homosexual. (A case study of an agi made explicit use of "transgendering" as a descriptive term, but this could also imply an additional linguistic difference.)

If it meant something, that last bit was acknowledged to be problematic in a study on Pinoy bisexuals. Bisexuals came in because, despite being a sexual orientation by Western definition, it had a place in the lalaki/bakla dichotomy. Even the latter contained its own masculine/feminine spectrum, such that the arrangement would be lalaki - bisexual - bakla / gay.

Yes, bakla and gay were interchangeable around these waters. Even if bakla were not necessarily exclusively homosexual AMABs, there were often stereotyped as such because of the sociocultural understanding of effeminacy.

A separate study published in 1995 revealed that an individual's sexual activity was not a direct reflection of their sexual orientation. Sexual relations between two bakla were viewed with contempt because they were, apparently, akin to a lesbian relationship. The penetrated one *coughs* the bottom was understood to be the feminine role in MSM (men having sex with men) relations. While not stated anywhere in the paper, it could be inferred that at least some participants acknowledged sex work as nothing more than work.

In that same study, many of the bakla participants expressed a preference for "straight" men; "hypermasculine" might be more apt by today's sensibilities. Hence, the bakla, as a female loob looking for a male loob partner, was understood to be gay (I would like to add that I had yet to encounter studies of "T4T" relationships between a bakla and a tibo).

Meanwhile, bisexual AMABs were typically stereotyped to fit the hypermasculine mold. There was also, unfortunately, the common (mis)conception that bisexual AMABs were just closeted gays; that was to say, bisexuality was a myth (yikes indeed). In the aforementioned study on Pinoy bisexuals — inferred via data extracted from user profiles on a certain dating site — there was a clear ostracization of the bakla as a (sexual) partner through the use of community lingo to express hiding all traces of effeminate behavior as a “requirement in a (sexual) partner.”

Put another way, these bisexuals expressed sexual interest only for more masc-passing AMABs. The choice of taking up the bisexual label, despite the lack of express sexual attraction for AFABs (within the study's sample size at least), was a tragic case of internalized homophobia and effeminophobia. Nonetheless, the author made it clear that the study aimed to set the initiative in challenging these problematic notions.

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Pardon the information overload! I hoped it would explain how I depicted Piri's struggle with his identity (In more ways than one? Absolutely.):

GIE: Aside from showing off art proof, if you asked me, I could see the token bakla mannerisms in some of the manga panels and sketches.

If audiovisual examples were of further help, let me share a few personal favorites: 01 (FB) || 02 (FB) || 03 (TWT).

Still, I wouldn't describe Piri as a "true-blue" effeminate bakla 24/7, although that part of him definitely "came out" more when he was in the company of people he trusted. ;) More specifically, he was a bakla capable of being discreet — a slang term for hiding your effeminacy. Alas, not even Amang Bayan was immune to social pressures — all the more when they literally shaped him.

As to the question of pronouns, I typically used he/him for Piri. Pronouns in the Philippine languages were gender-neutral — though I might be wrong in being ignorant of noteworthy exceptions!

By the time the Western language discourse reached his shores, Piri would shrug and admit that any pronouns would work just fine, but not without unconsciously re-enacting this meme first.

SO: In all honesty, Piri definitely had a strong preference for masc-leaning AMAB sex partners. Truth be told, he was gay (homosexual). He had his handful of girl crushes, but he would rather be the woman than do the woman. Still, he had his moments of "maybe I do like girls as well," so to play it safe, he would tell other people that he was bisexual. And if we were really going there, very well. Vers bottom.

When I also wrote up the talents & hobbies headcanon post, the vast majority of it had nothing to do with Piri's sex or gender. People were and should be allowed to enjoy things for the sake of it, and not because boys and girls are supposed to do this and that.

Something I really would like to depict in the precolonial arc: Indo was a major inspiration for Piri to explore his femininity — the product of brainrot that burst forth from encountering similar Indonesian gender identities. Yes, I drew Indo with a relatively more masculine body type than Piri, but let me tell you all that Piri upped his makeup game BECAUSE OF ABANG INDO. ✨ SLAY! ✨

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In defense of the conflation of bakla and gay, bacla was an Old Tagalog word for "confusion," "uncertainty," and "indecisiveness." Confusion was apt to describe the early colonial ethnographies of local shamans, written by the Spaniards that clutched on their evangelizing pearls in trying to make sense of the sexual activities of the natives on which they kept their tunnel vision. The established fact of their biased writings did little to prevent the retrospective interpretation that precolonial Philippines was an egalitarian society in gender discourse alone. Nevertheless, no meaningful PH queer studies would be achieved if the postcolonial and neocolonial power structures that introduced and/or sustained the gender binary as the status quo were never taken into account.

Despite the neocolonialist roots of national identity formation, anti-heteronormativity was an undeniable force of “anticolonial ‘national liberation’” that heeded the Fanonian thinking of “the nation [being] as much located in the past of a people struggling to bring itself into and keep itself in existence as it is in their present and, certainly, their future.” There was an "interesting overlap between postcolonial and anti-heteronormative discourses" in applying Judith Butler's theory of gender identity as performativity to national identity as well, to which Sedgwick proposed a habitation/nation system as the matrix within which national identities were negotiated. Coupled with Benedict Anderson's comment on treating nationalism "as if it belonged with 'kinship' and 'religion,'" it matched well with the inherently psychospiritual loob that constituted gender identity — and therefore national identity. To quote J. Neil C. Garcia, "we might say that being a Filipino is not what one is, but what one does."

While Sedgwick specialized in literary criticism, her theory’s cross-cutting into a sociological analysis conformed to the etymology (at far as Sedgwick was aware of it) of queer as transverse. I wish I could go further down the interdisciplinary inquiry, but I deadass semi-abandoned my academic obligations just to get this out into the online wild. In light of certain Twitter disk horse, a separate deep dive into the nuances of concepts adjacent to Pilipinohiya, Sikolohiyang Pilipino among them, was now in the cards.

Truth be told, this headcanon happened at all because — hopefully! — it would explain big time why I drew/wrote Piri the way I did (read: I'm obsessed with the conformity and subversion of roles). That and a sense of "indecisiveness" honestly defined numerous moments throughout Piri's history…

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Some Annotations

Because I do not want randos squaring up on me as if I uncritically subscribe to everything I read:

The most recent publication in the list of sources below was an anthology of studies published within a decade of assembling the book itself. It was intended to be an introduction to PH queer studies. Any later nuances developed since their initial, individual publication should be expected. Most existing PH queer studies were done by native Tagalog speakers, who therefore relied on the Tagalog-centric "Filipinizing" framework. The cited studies below on the bayot and the bantut — Visayas and Mindanao — were by white Americans educated in America. As of this post going up, Hart's study was published 55 years ago, while Johnson's was 28 years ago. Hart did not indicate if the quoted testimonies were his translations or if his interviewees had indeed spoken in English. Just as Butlerian performativity borrowed from earlier gender/sexuality studies built on biological anthropology ( a very...Western thing!!), so did Hart's emphasis on the testimonies that validated a hereditary basis to the bayot identity. Nonetheless, he concluded his study for further research to corroborate (or not) these statements.

Sources

Alcedo, Patrick. "Sacred Camp: Transgendering Faith in a Philippine Festival." In More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights Into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History, and Politics, edited by Mark Blasius and Richard T. Chu, 303-337. Quezon City, Philippines: Vibal Foundation, Inc., 2021. Baytan, Ronald. "Crazy Planets: Notes on Filipino 'Bisexuals'" In More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights Into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History, and Politics, edited by Mark Blasius and Richard T. Chu, 211-247. Quezon City, Philippines: Vibal Foundation, Inc., 2021. Garcia, J. Neil. “Performativity, the bakla and the orientalizing gaze.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (2000): 265–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649370050141140. —. "Knowledge, Sexuality, and the Nation-State." In Performing the Self: Occasional Prose, 3-15. Quezon City, Philippines: The University of the Philippines Press, 2003. —. “Philippine Gay Culture: An Update and a Postcolonial Autocritique.” In More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights Into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History, and Politics, edited by Mark Blasius and Richard T. Chu, 53-91. Quezon City, Philippines: Vibal Foundation, Inc., 2021. Hart, Donn V. “Homosexuality and Transvestism in the Philippines: The Cebuan Filipino Bayot and Lakin-On.” Behavior Science Notes 3, no. 4 (November 1968): 211–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/106939716800300401. Johnson, Mark. “Transgender Men and Homosexuality in the Southern Philippines: Ethnicity, Political Violence and the Protocols of Engendered Sexualities amongst the Muslim Tausug and Sama.” South East Asia Research 3, no. 1 (1995): 46–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967828x9500300104. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Nationalisms and Sexualities: As Opposed to What?" In Tendencies, 143-153. London: Routledge, 1994. Tan, Michael J. "From Bakla to Gay: Shifting Gender Identities and Sexual Behaviors in the Philippines." In More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights Into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History, and Politics, edited by Mark Blasius and Richard T. Chu, 195-209. Quezon City, Philippines: Vibal Foundation, Inc., 2021.

[unmattata]

This is very good and funny:

The number of people opposed to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in schools dwindled to about 50 by early afternoon from a few hundred. Many had been escorted out of the area by police. The small group remaining was surrounded on all sides by hundreds of people advocating for transgender rights, with a line of police separating the two groups... ...As a woman took to a microphone at noon on the east end of the lawn to demand an end to the “indoctrination of children,” hundreds of people moved toward her chanting “trans lives matter,” drowning out the woman’s voice as they waved Pride and transgender flags and booed.

Times Colonist, "Police ask crowds to leave as rally at legislature becomes 'unsafe'"