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LGBTQI The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) stressed that “not even a religious belief can justify a human rights violation." It reacted to reports that six members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community were forced to have their heads shaved in
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has revised its rules on sexual harassment to "further deter sexual harassment in the public sector" and to harmonize with the Safe Spaces Act.
Manila 6th District representative and House Deputy Speaker Bienvendo ‘Benny’ Abante (Facebook)
This was after Manila 6th District representative and House Deputy Speaker Bienvenido “Benny” Abante Jr. opposed the inclusion of gender identity in the “protected attributes” of the anti-discrimination measure that they are crafting.
Abante, one of the authors of the bill, said it would be a “redundancy” as gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and sex characteristics have already been included as among those protected under the bill.
“We have already made a lot of compromises, a lot of compromises. We have gender, we have sexual orientation, we have sex characteristics. There is no need for us to put up gender identity,” lamented the congressman, who is also a pastor.