LGBTQI Community Agenda

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The Community Agenda urgently calls for full inclusion and protection of LGBTQI Filipinos on multi-spaces, from workplaces and schools to healthcare systems, media, and governance. The Agenda calls for several key actions, including ensuring equal opportunities and anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQI individuals in the workplace; integrating SOGIESC awareness into school curriculum; addressing LGBTQI health disparities by increasing funding for inclusive healthcare, particularly HIV prevention and treatment; promoting media sensitivity and ensuring accurate reporting of LGBTQI cases; strengthening advocacy through Anti-Discrimination Ordinances (ADO) and Gender and Development (GAD) initiatives; and securing legal recognition and protection for LGBTQI couples and intersex individuals.

Hirap pa rin ang maraming LGBTQI na Pilipino na makahanap ng trabaho—mas mataas ang posibilidad nilang mawalan ng hanapbuhay dahil sa kakulangan ng oportunidad at hindi pagkilala sa kanilang kakayahan. Sa mga opisina man, malayo pa rin ang pagkakapantay-pantay: patuloy ang diskriminasyon, harassment, at pangungutya na nagtutulak sa iba na manahimik o tuluyang lumisan. Dahil walang sapat na proteksiyong legal, marami ang pinipiling itago ang pagkatao para lang makapagtrabaho. Hindi dapat maging hadlang ang pagiging LGBTQI sa pag-unlad.

Equal opportunity policy
Anti-discrimination policies in the workplace
Expand RA 10911 to include SOGIESC

Malaking bahagi ng pagkatao ng isang tao ay nahuhubog sa paaralan ngunit para sa maraming LGBTQI na estudyante, ang silid-aralan ay naging lugar ng takot imbes na kaligtasan. Karaniwan ang pambu-bully, pagmumura, at karahasan, habang kulang naman ang mga paaralan sa kaalaman at mekanismong magpoprotekta sa kanila. Ang kakulangan ng inklusibong edukasyon ay nagpapalaganap ng stigma, hiya, at pakiramdam ng di-pagkabilang. Panahon na para isama ng pamahalaan ang mga hakbang laban sa diskriminasyon sa edukasyon, sanayin ang mga guro, at bigyang espasyo ang LGBTQI na mga organisasyon sa mga paaralan—dahil bawat bata ay may karapatang matuto nang may dignidad.

Raise LGBTQI awareness in order to incorporate anti-discrimination measures in the Philippine education system
Inclusion of SOGIESC in the school curriculum
Implementation of DepEd GRP and CHED Memorandum Order No. 1, series of 2015
Awareness and sensitization training for teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, etc.
Organizing of LGBTQI organizations in schools
LGBTQI arm for TESDA

Let’s make the 20th Congress the Equality Congress.

Improve existing redress mechanisms
Address the lack of institutionalized solidarity and safe spaces
Position the protection and promotion of the human rights of all LGBTQI persons in external relations
Awareness and sensitization training for service providers and duty-bearers
Standardized definition of “household” / LBQT-inclusion in disaster response
Legislation to recognize LBQT couples as a family to facilitate access to aid and other social services
Revisit the Migrant Workers Act of 1995 and include protection of trans men from sexual harassment
Property and Inheritance Rights
Access to Justice and Redressal of grievances
Legal recognition of intersex characteristics in all areas
Protecting Intersex People's Bodily Autonomy
Protecting intersex people from discrimination in all areas

Sama-sama. Walang iwanan - L,G,B,T, I, Q or kahit ano ka man.

Popularization of ADOs and GAD through dialogues with duty-bearers
Information and Education Campaigns to enforce ADOs, facilitate redress mechanisms, create more civic spaces for LBQT groups, and implement LBQT-inclusive gender and development programs/projects/activities (GAD PPAs)
LBQT organizing and capacity building / organizational development of LBQT individuals and groups
Mapping of champions and allies
Encouraging community-based organizations to be accredited on top of Barangay and LGU recognition
Facilitation of an accessible accreditation process by LGUs
Partnership with LGUs and integration into the technical working group (TWG) in the implementation of LBQT PPAs
Presentation of the LBQT Agenda to the Philippine Commision on Women (PCW)
Conduct seminars and workshops to reinforce anti-discrimination safeguards on a granular level
Promote leadership among LGBTQI Youth
Promote people's participation mechanisms

Hindi dapat tayo nanlilimos ng ating healthcare. We deserve good health. We deserve a functioning public health system that does not discriminate.

Address the lack of adequate funding and programs centered on LGBTQI Health and Wellbeing
Make access to HIV Testing, Treatment, and Prevention more readily available
Inclusive promotion of breast and cervical cancer check-ups
Awareness and sensitization training for service providers and duty-bearers
Localization of mental health law and establishment of psychosocial support group/mechanism for LBQTs
Inclusion of LBQT health issues in sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) services like gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT)
Access to intersex affirmative healthcare
Regulating the medical practices, procedures, and medical practitioners
Registration of intersex infants at birth

The media should not be a space for hate and discrimination. It should be a space for acceptance and inclusion.

Open media dialogue
Cybersecurity training
Social media management training
Guidelines for cyberbullying upholding community standards
Documentation of LBQT cases
Psychosocial support and mechanisms for victims of social media harassment/violence
Training of media people on LBQT-sensitive reporting
Data on the number of LBQT individuals in the barangay