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Trainer’s Training to Address Domestic Violence and Family Violence (DV/FV) of LGBTI Persons January 30-February 1, 2017 Loreland Farm Resort, Antipolo City Please stand for the Philippines national anthem I. Why this training? Quezon City Gender Fair Ordinance LBT Project on DV/FV • Timeframe: 2016 – 2018 • Outputs o Protocol on LBT DV/FV o Module on LBT DV/FV o Trainer’s Training for each districts o Echo training for each district o Community Forum for each district o Information materials for barangays o Monitoring for barangays in all districts Aim of the Trainer’s Training • To enhance understanding of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE), • To deepen knowledge about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people, • To educate on the different forms of DV/FV experienced by LGBTI persons, • To capacitate with skills to provide sensitive and appropriate interventions and assistance to LGBTI persons who are victims of DV/FV. Day 1 Overview • Introduction to the Trainer’s training • Review of Human Rights concepts • Workshop on Stigma, Stereotypes, Prejudice, Discrimination • Workshop on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Nice to meet you… 1. Introduce yourself 2. Barangay and area 3. Length of work sa Barangay 4. Expectation from other participants training. 5. Expectation from the training. 6. Ano iyong sexual orientation? 7. Ano ang iyong gender identity? House Rules • Be on time. We will start without you. • No cellphone and internet use during the training session. • No imposition of religion or political beliefs. • Courtesy all time time. • No absent, no late = certificate. • RESPECT in words, thoughts and actions. II. Review of Human Rights concepts Introduction/Rationale Clara Rita A. Padilla, JD EnGendeRights, Inc. (632) 3762578 [email protected] Like us: http://www.facebook.com/engenderightsphilippines Question: Can a battered lesbian living with her lesbian partner seek protection under RA 9262? Yes, pwedeng dumulog ang battered lesbian kumuha ng HINDI! pwedeng dumulog ang protection under RA 9262 battered lesbian kumuha ng protection under RA 9262 QUESTIONS: • Should LGBTI couples be allowed the following rights: – right to adopt children, – own conjugal properties, – intestate succession, – immigration, custody, – avail of tax exemption, and – avail of benefits related to health/life insurance, social security, health care/medical, hospitalization, next-of-kin, burial, among others? Yes, dapat payagan sa mga Yes, dapat payagan sa mga Rights na ito Rights na ito QUESTION: • Should the Philippines enact a marriage equality law where LGBTI people will have equal rights to marry? Yes, dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons QUESTION: Should the Philippines allow change of name/ sex based on gender identity? YES, dapat dapat payagan Magpalit ng name and sex HINDI, dapat dapat payagan dependent sa gender identity Magpalit ng name and sex Isang tao dependent sa gender identity Isang tao QUESTION: Should a public school allow a lesbian to wear pants in school? YES, dapat magkaroon ng HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Relasyon ng LGBTI persons QUESTION: l Should a public school allow a transgender woman/girl to wear a dress in school? YES, dapat payagan ang Transgender woman na magsuot HINDI dapat payagan ang ng damit pangbabae Transgender woman na Magsuot ng damit pangbabae QUESTION: • Should a commercial establishment allow a transgender woman to use the women’s toilet? Yes, dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons QUESTION: • Should the Comelec deny the LGBTI group Ang Ladlad to register as a party-list group prohibiting it to run in Congress on the claim that they are “immoral” and “the Bible and the Qur’an prohibit LGBTI peoples”? YES, dapat ma-deny ang LADLAD to resigter… HINDI, dapat ma-deny ang LADLAD to resigter… Question • Does a mother have the right to physically abuse her lesbian daughter simply because she is a lesbian? YES, may karapatan ang Ina to physically abuse her HINDI, may karapatan ang lesbian daughter kasi lesbian Ina to physically abuse her Siya. lesbian daughter kasi lesbian Siya. Questions l Can a transgender woman be raped? YES pwede ma-rape ang isang transgender woman HINDI nare-rape ang transgender woman Question • Should Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) or the “morning after pill” be allowed in the Philippines to prevent unwanted pregnancy resulting from rape? Yes, dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla Question: l Within a week after a woman rape survivor was raped, she related the incident to her best friend. Her best friend testified about what was related to her and the demeanor of the rape Yes,survivor. Is the testimony of her best friend dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Relasyonadmissible in evidence? ng LGBTI persons Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla Question: l Should abortion be allowed for women victims of rape? Yes, dapat magkaroon ng Batas na magiging legal ang HINDI, dapat magkaroon ng Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Batas na magiging legal ang Relasyon ng LGBTI persons Question: • Should a doctor refuse treatment to a woman who is suffering complications from unsafe abortion? YES dapat umayaw ang doctor na asikasihun ang isang babae dahil sa post-abortion complications HINDI dapat umayaw ang doctor na asikasihun ang isang babae dahil sa post-abortion complications Pointers • There are differing points of views/beliefs • Basic respect for the other person’s beliefs • Victims of patriarchy, culture, beliefs; we all have baggage; influence of almost 500 years of colonial Church influence. Pointers • Keep an open mind • Break mindsets • “Debaters” for LGBTI persons’ rights – eye for discriminatory laws/practices – impact of discriminatory laws/practices • social change – towards gender equality and non-discrimination • What can you do as agents of social change? • personal, community, school, workplace, church • laws, policies, practices – make a stand/ Tumaya / aksyon – Fought for: » RA 7877, RA 8353/amendment, RA 9208/10364, RA 9262, repeal of vagrancy, RH, etc.; » Ordinances (QC Gender-Fair, etc.), circulars, policies • What is your religion? LGBTI People’s Rights are Human Rights l Right to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (SOGIE) l Right to equality and non-discrimination o Right to be free and equal § Heterosexuals should not be afforded more rights than LGBTI people o Right to privacy (closeted; as if disreputable) versus right to equality (being out) o Rights are not negotiable Characteristics of Human Rights § Universal § Applicable to ALL persons - heterosexual, LGBTI people. § Race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, indigenous, etc § Inherent § All human beings are born with human rights. § Inalienable § human rights are inseparable from our personhood. § Indivisibility/interdependence § human rights cannot be divided from other rights; it is interlinked. *Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) * The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action in 1993 affirmed that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated, and States have a duty to fulfill them. Basis for Human Rights q Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) o Article 1 § All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights o Article 2 § Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Basis for Human Rights q International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) o Article 2 § Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Basis for Human Rights q International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) o Article 2 § The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. LGBTI People’s Rights are Human Rights q Right to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (SOGIE) q Right to equality and non-discrimination o Right to be free and equal § Heterosexuals should not be afforded more rights than LGBTI people o Right to privacy (closeted; as if disreputable) versus right to equality (being out) o Rights are not negotiable International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) • Art. 1 – victim (note: actual violation of rights) • Art. 2 – rights of all individuals w/out distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. • Art. 3 - equal right of men and women • Art. 26 - equality before the law and non-discrimination; equal protection • Art. 14 – equal before the courts • Art. 17 – right against arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, home or correspondence • Art. 23 - equality of rights to marriage International Covenant on Economic, social and Cultural Rights • Art. 2 – non-discrimination of ESC rights on the basis of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. • Art. 3 - equal right to ESC rights • Art.