Assessment and Application

A. Reflection.
Based on the lesson, identify your own sex, gender and sexuality. Construct a reflection paper
with your personal insights and realizations.

From my own understanding, Sex is about your body. Gender is how you feel your self to be
and Sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves
biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors.
Males and females are classed differently from the moment they are pronounced boy or girl.
Gender determines the differences in power and control in which men and women have over the
socioeconomic determinants of their health, lives and status in their community. Our society
moulds how men and women should and should not behave and can be observed in all parts of
our society.

In my own answer and based on my own understanding, gender human sexuality can be
identified as people whose gender are considered as male, female, lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex, asexual, and many more. The gender human sexuality refers to a
person's personalities or aspects regarding on how they live, interact, think mentally, or do
things physically as a different gender among others.

B.Research work.
Conduct a literary search on the sociological perspective of gender and sexuality. How do
countries differ in their regard to transgenders and other members of LGBTQ+ Community?
What laws have been enacted to protect them? Share your output in a class.

Gender and sexuality are not just personal identities, they are social identities. They arise from
our relationships to other people, and they depend upon social interaction and social
recognition. As such, they influence how we understand ourselves in relation to others.

Americans’ attitudes about gays and lesbians have changed dramatically over the past decade
or so, and the LGBT adults are acutely aware of this. These changing attitudes have meant that
LGBT adults feel more accepted by society now than in the past. They have also given rise to a
nearly universal sense of optimism about what lies ahead for this community.

But in the Philippines, students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) too
often find that their schooling experience is marred by bullying, discrimination, lack of access to
LGBT-related information, and in some cases, physical or sexual assault. These abuses can
cause deep and lasting harm and curtail students’ right to education, protected under Philippine
and international law. Schools should be safe places for everyone. But in the Philippines,
students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) too often find that their
schooling experience is marred by bullying, discrimination, lack of access to LGBT-related
information, and in some cases, physical or sexual assault. These abuses can cause deep and
lasting harm and curtail students’ right to education, protected under Philippine and international
law.
In recent years, lawmakers and school administrators in the Philippines have recognized that
bullying of LGBT youth is a serious problem, and designed interventions to address it. In 2012,
the Department of Education (DepEd), which oversees primary and secondary schools, enacted
a Child Protection Policy designed to address bullying and discrimination in schools, including
on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The following year, Congress passed the
Anti-Bullying Law of 2013, with implementing rules and regulations that enumerate sexual
orientation and gender identity as prohibited grounds for bullying and harassment. The adoption
of these policies sends a strong signal that bullying and discrimination are unacceptable and
should not be tolerated in educational institutions. The Philippine city of Mandaluyong has
approved an ordinance to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people
from discrimination, the latest in a slew of local laws passed across the country.

Mandaluyong’s anti-discrimination ordinance “prohibits such discriminatory acts as denying or

limiting employment-related access; denying access to public programs or services; refusing
admission, expelling or dismissing a person from educational institutions due to their SOGIE
(sexual orientation, gender identity and expression).” It also prohibits “verbal or written abuse;
unjust detention/involuntary confinement; denying access to facilities; and illegalizing formation
of groups that incite SOGIE-related discrimination.”

The passage of the these local ordinances are important because LGBT Filipinos, while widely
accepted in Philippine society, still face discrimination. This is particularly true for LGBT students
as well as LGBT people living with HIV, many of whom suffer even more from mistreatment by
families, employers, or colleagues. While the ordinance does not specifically address
HIV-related discrimination, most HIV infections in the Philippines occur among LGBT people,
particularly men who have sex with men. The Philippines has the fastest-growing HIV epidemic
in the Asia-Pacific region, and a third of all new HIV infections are recorded in Metro Manila,
which is composed of 16 towns and cities, including Mandaluyong.

The wave of local ordinances stands in stark contrast to the Philippine legislature, which has not
passed similar anti-discrimination legislation. While the lower House passed a version of an
anti-LGBT discrimination bill in September, its Senate version faces stiff opposition from
religious groups and conservative senators. The recently appointed Senate president, Senator
Vicente Sotto III, a religious conservative supported by the Catholic Church because of his
outspoken opposition to LGBT equality legislation, is likely to strongly oppose any legislation
aimed to protect the rights of LGBT people.

LGBT rights advocates believe the strategy to ban SOGIE discrimination could offset at the local
level the absence of such legislation at the national level. But those local laws are also a
challenge to the Philippine government to take the initiative to pass national anti-LGBT
discrimination legislation to ensure that all Filipinos enjoy the rights guaranteed them under the
country’s constitution and international human rights law.
C. Conceptualize a program or activity that will promote equality, equity, and inclusivity of the
LGBT+ group in our society. Give the objectives and details of the program in the box below.

This tiny activity demonstrates how changing your perspective can make something look
completely different!

*GOALS & LEARNING OUTCOMES

-Demonstrate how changing your view or perspective can completely change how something
looks or is perceived
-Change up the energy in the room

Process steps:

1.Ask everyone to point a finger towards the ceiling/sky, their arm outstretched and to draw a
circle about a 2 feet wide above their heads clockwise. You should demonstrate the action and
have the group follow along.

2. While keeping that finger towards the sky participants to bring that circle down, to keep
circling, until their hand is about at chest level. Again you should be doing this with them.

3. Now ask everyone which way their circle is going now. If they continued to go in the same
direction they are circling will now appear to be counterclockwise.

4. Repeat the process for those who didn’t get or were confused the first time.

5. Reflect on how this is just a really quick activity that can demonstrate the power of
perspectives, that depending on where you are when you’re looking at something that it can
completely change how it looks and its view to you. Note: If you do this step by step with them
you won’t have to explain it in as much detail.