A recent exchange at Facebook questioned our motives for taking the partylist route. This smart-ass "avowed bisexual" opined that we can achieve our objectives through other means. His concerns could have been valid, but I seriously doubted his real intentions for bringing them up. With all his negativity and spurious remarks against AngLadlad, I decided it wasn't worth my breath to respond to him anymore.
A few days later I posted something of a background on the Anti-Discrimination Bill which floundered in Congress for years, and the politicians/legislators the Filipino LGBT Community put its hopes on. One can glean from the discussion the reasons why there still hasn't been an LGBT-friendly law that has been passed until now.
The participants of R-Rights' recent Gender Sensitivity and Human Rights Training hopefully understand things better now - why Filipino LGBTs still suffer discrimination and homophobia everyday, where they stand under Philippine law and what remedies are available to them, and what other recourse they have.
The answer is simple - we need new and better laws which address our own issues and protect our rights as Filipino LGBTs. If the veteran legislators tried to do this for us, wouldn't we be in a better position to speak about what we need and want for ourselves?
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