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The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE, / ˈ s oʊ dʒ iː / Tagalog:) Equality Bill, also known as the Anti-Discrimination Bill (ADB), [1] [2] is a series of House and Senate bills that were introduced in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Congress of the Philippines, which aims to set into law measures to prevent various economic and public accommodation-related acts of ...
On the same month, after 17 years of political limbo, the SOGIE Equality Bill finally passed in the House of Representatives under Bag-ao's principal authorship. [28] Bag-ao was the vice-chairperson of the House Committees on Ecology, Labor and Employment, and Population and Family Relations.
In September 2017, the SOGIE Equality Bill passed unanimously in the House of Representatives, after 17 years of political limbo, with no lawmakers voting against it. In January 2018, Roman, along with the House Speaker, filed House Bill 6595 (the Civil Partnership Bill), which seeks to legalize civil unions, regardless of gender. [11]
The only bill directly concerning discrimination against the LGBT community in the Philippines is the Anti-Discrimination Bill, also known as the SOGIE Equality Bill. This bill seeks that all persons regardless of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity be treated the same as everyone else, wherein conditions do not differ in the privileges ...
AchibDisbill—a play on "ADB" or Anti-Discrimination Bill—is a national campaign spearheaded by Bahaghari for the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Bill, otherwise known as the SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression) Equality Bill. [14] The bill, if pushed into law, would provide legal remedies for Filipinos who ...
The House of Representatives approved LGBT Rights on 20 September 2017. The lawmakers had voted 198–0 to approve House Bill 4982, otherwise known as the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Equality (SOGIE) Bill. Violating this law carries penalties of ₱100,000 to ₱500,000 fines, and imprisonment for one to six years.
The 18th Congress passed a total of 311 bills which were signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte. 119 of these laws were national in scope, while 192 were local: [34] Republic Act Short title
The siblings stayed there until they ended their studies, but would come home for Christmas and summer holidays [35] She turned 18 - the Philippines' age of majority, fourteen months after the declaration of Martial Law, [54] and played various political roles in the Martial Law administration - as chairperson of the Kabataang Barangay and as ...