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    All people deserve equal treatment and respect regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Discrimination based on SOGIE violates basic human rights and dignity. While some argue that LGBTQ identities contradict religious beliefs, freedom of religion and self-determination are both human rights. The SOGIE bill aims to protect all Filipinos from discrimination and promote equal treatment under the law.

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    All people deserve equal treatment and respect regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Discrimination based on SOGIE violates basic human rights and dignity. While some argue that LGBTQ identities contradict religious beliefs, freedom of religion and self-determination are both human rights. The SOGIE bill aims to protect all Filipinos from discrimination and promote equal treatment under the law.

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    All people deserve equal treatment and respect regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Discrimination based on SOGIE violates basic human rights and dignity. While some argue that LGBTQ identities contradict religious beliefs, freedom of religion and self-determination are both human rights. The SOGIE bill aims to protect all Filipinos from discrimination and promote equal treatment under the law.

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    CONCLUSION

    All anybody is trying to do is live their lives and be given the service,
    be treated with respect as anyone else is treated. All we want is equality.
    –Petra E., Biloxi, MS, October 4, 2017

    To live by our chosen identities and sexual orientation subject of


    course to the implied and inherent moderation of the fundamental tenets
    of basic human decency is one of the deepest expressions of our freedom.
    This adage is timeless: We can extend our arms however lengthy we want
    but the extension ends where the others’ nose or arm begins. We can
    express ourselves as free as the waves of the sea but not crossing the lines
    of the foreshores of universal justice to which we are all held accountable
    and checked.

    Conversely, to be a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,


    pansexual, asexual, non-binary, and so forth is one of the basic rights
    afforded to each of us just like the decision of identifying yourself as a
    straight male or female is just as a basic right. Identifying yourself and
    abiding by your chosen sexuality not to the damage and prejudice of others
    is no felony just as being straight is not a crime.

    But to discriminate others and to inordinately ostracize others


    because of their SOGI are definitely offenses that can be and should be a
    basis of lawful civil vindication and if amounting to crime, of punishment.
    After all we are under the encompassing cloth of the rule of law and each of
    us is afforded the protection against discrimination and possible abuse
    regardless of our sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Truly, one may say that we are in a country of predominantly


    Christian religion and to live as LGBTQ member in this country, a pride
    member runs the risk of being constantly differentiated. This mentality and
    culture should however stop because in as much as freedom to religion is a
    right, right to self-determination is also a human right. Moreover, not
    everybody renders fidelity in a certain religion. Concomitantly, the right to
    associate oneself in one religion has an auxiliary right of not associating
    with one. Consequently, the logic of constantly lambasting a gay’s morality
    or moral compass for example with religious dogmas and precepts does not
    really come across logically. Simply because not everybody is religiously
    inclined. The arrangement should be plain and simple: leave each one to
    worship in accordance with his niceties and believe what he wants to. Let
    the LGBTQ members do what they want, believe what they want, worship
    however they want, and love who they want. And the better rule should be
    this: the gauge of morality must not be religious. It must be secular or
    public.

    Over the past decade, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
    people have made significant legal and political gains all over the world,
    including the freedom to marry. Despite this progress, many laws in the
    different countries does not expressly prohibit discrimination based on
    sexual orientation and gender identity in fields like employment, housing,
    and access to services. (HW Org, 2018)

    Precisely, without these protections, LGBT people across the


    Philippines lack clear recourse and redress when they are fired, evicted, or
    refused service because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

    The SOGIE Bill indeed is a milestone if signed into a law for the LGBT
    members of the country. What is interesting is that, if you read the bill in its
    entirety, it guarantees protection not only to the LGBT people but also to
    the straight ones. Because being straight is also a sexual orientation and
    gender identity. The SOGIE Bill, contrary to what many are catapulting, is
    not the LGBTs asking for too much recognition. It’s just a step towards at
    least freeing country from historical discrimination and abuse on the basis
    of sex, sexuality, and gender identity.

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