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[Musika] And when people start identifying themselves as transgenders, then you—it also means that you have to start addressing them with the names that they want to be addressed and using the pronouns that's specifically for that purpose. Actually, sa totoo lang, ang ating wikang Filipino ay walang kinikilalang gender. Ang naging gender lang naman ang language natin nung gumamit tayo ng English, kasi very, very ano—very gender-blind ang ating Filipino pronoun: ikaw, ako, siya, tayo, ba. Pero kailangan sa American English, kailangan i-identify mo kung he or she. Now, if someone is a transgender woman, like Angela Ponce, you identify her as her. Okay. Um, Jake Cyrus should be called a him. Okay, so para sa isang taong katulad na natin, when we feel na ito ‘yun, halimbawa ah, babae ako, to’s parang ano bang issue? Ba’t natin kailangan problemahin ‘to? Ang dami pang problema sa buhay. That’s privilege; you don’t feel that their identity—in a way, parang—you have to ask yourself, “Why am I dismissing this concern?” Kasi for people who are transgendered, for the longest time, they try to hide who they are, and it’s really nice if they—if you acknowledge them. So ako, personally, in my class, because in the Philippines, hindi pa ano yung magpapalit ng pangalan yung mga transgenders, so ako, pagka may transgender students ako sa klase, ang una kong tinatanong sa first day of class, when I call them, “How would you like me to address you? What name should I call you?” So they’ll give me their chosen names, and I will call them that all throughout. Okay, kasi yun yung concern natin sa gender identity ngayon. Pag inisip ninyo, Ma’am, so binary na naman ‘sis,’ gender, transgender. Paano kung hindi naman kami transgender at hindi rin naman kami ‘sis’ gender? We’re still talking of the identity, ha—how we see ourselves. Okay, so kung kayo ay taong walang confusion sa buhay, yes, mabuhay kayo. Okay, but for the people na medyo na gustong mag-explore, gustong-gustong makita kung ah, what makes them comfortable, then let’s—yun nga—try to understand them. Okay, nakakahilo siya konti, no? Ah, again, this is not to label people, but just to start being more aware of our language, because remember, language also shapes our reality. If you’re a cisgender and you’re at—if you’re not a cisgender and you’re not a trans, how can you identify yourself? There are some terms. Okay, if you don’t want to adopt these terms, that’s fine, that’s really, really fine. Walang problema. But in gender studies, kasi this is something that’s being discussed. Okay, para naintindihan natin na ang gender—kaya ang tawag ko sa lecture ko—spectrum. Kasi ang gender, hindi binary, spectrum siya. Mahabang siyang linya na nag-fluid, gumagalaw. Okay, so yan. Um, we’ve talked about cisgender, and then let’s go to nonbinary. Non-binary are people who don’t identify as exclusively male or female. Nonbinary, posibleng ah, kung ikaw ay lesbian, I don’t identify—if you’re a lesbian, you don’t identify as male and female; you’re—you have a different identity, so you can call yourself a nonbinary. Okay, so bisexual sometimes can identify as non-binary. Then you have gender fluid. Okay, um, my current partner now identifies as a gender fluid. Ano yung gender fluid? Sila yung mga taong yung identity changes over time. The next one is gender expression, and I also sum it up with this: sometimes you are what you wear, but sometimes you’re not. Okay. Bakit ko siya sinasabi? Um, people would think that lesbians have to dress like this to be a lesbian, and then they are shocked when someone who’s really like very girly, very feminine, tapos you hit on her—ano—on a bar. It’s—tol, hindi tayo talo. It’s—maloloka yung lalaki kasi parang, “Lesbian ka? Ang ganda mo ah.” Ang sagot ko doon, “Ba’t? Bakit gwapo ka?” Me, doon ako naloloka eh. Yung ini-equate din natin yung—yung—yung expression, kung maganda ka o pangit ka, or yun nga, minsan, “Sayang, bading siya, ang gwapo pa naman niya.” Parang, guys, may karapatang maging maganda at gwapo ang LGBT. Hindi yan pang cisgender lang. Just imagine, we totally judge people by the way that they express themselves, but expression sometimes does not have anything to do with your identity. There are a number of gender expressions. We have the androgen. Androgen are people who express themselves using a combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. Si Ruby Rose is a model, is an androgen model, so she IDs androgen because she presents herself as both masculine and feminine. Feminine expression are, for example, how you would—this are associated with women. Okay, so ba, ano yung mga bagay na associated with women? Generally, make-up. But it doesn’t mean na nagma-make-up ka, pang isang tao, aakala mo agad na babae siya. Okay, kasi yung mga emo rocker bands also wear make-up. Kaya yun yung sinasabi ko eh, kaya siya dimensions, kasi hindi nangangahulugang kung ano rin yung physical na nakikita mo, yun din yung pag-ID nila sa kanilang sarili. Okay, so you have androgen, feminine, masculine, of course. So kung ikaw ay um, may pinipili—you identify as a man, then you dress all—so in clothes traditionally associated with men, then happy ka kasi wala kang masyadong discrimination na natatanggap sa mundo. Okay, kasi kahit papaano, privilege pa rin po ang mga lalaki. Okay, ang lesbian, sabi nila, they are twice oppressed. They are twice oppressed kasi oppressed sila as babae, oppressed pa sila as lesbian. Matindi diyan. Kung ikaw ay probinsyanong lesbian pa, tatlong beses ka oppressed: oppressed ka bilang babae, oppressed ka bilang lesbian, oppressed ka pa bilang taga-probinsya, na rural. Mas malala diyan, kung ikaw ay person with disability pa, apat na beses ka pang oppressed. Binuhat mo lahat ng oppression sa mundo, para kang Maria Clara na teleserye. So I mean, being conscious of these things makes you, in a way, I think, kinder towards the struggles of other people and towards your own struggles to know who you are. Kasi a lot of people, a lot of students would also come to me; they will tell me, “Ma’am, paano ko ma-figure out kung ano sino talaga yung gusto ko?” I would ask them, “Ilang taon ka ba?” “18.” “Okay lang yan. Bata ka pa. You don’t have to define who you are at a certain point, kasi lagi yang may pagbabago. Pero kung feeling mo, pagkagising ko, paglabas ko sa tiyan ng nanay ko, alam ko babae talaga ako, then fine. That’s also really, really good for you.” And of course, gender neutral are—is different from conventional expectations of masculinity and femininity. So marami na rin pong gender neutral na expressions ngayon, and nowadays, there are also brands that actually—actually, ito hinanakit ko sa mga brands dito sa Pinas: they don’t dress—they only dress for men and women. They don’t dress for the other genders. So my choice is to wear really, really baggy dresses or things, or go to the women’s and wear really tight clothes or girly clothes with girly cuts. So ang pangarap ko sa buhay—hindi kasi—hindi lang kasi ako—we—hindi ako fashionista, pero gusto ko talagang magka-—for gender androgen, gender neutral people, kasi nakaka-—pumupuno sa mall saka sa sapatos, sobrang gendered ng sapatos. Hinanakit ko ‘to, kasi mahilig po ako sa sapatos. Okay, sobrang gendered ng sapatos. Maraming—maraming gusto akong sapatos, pero lahat sila nasa lalaki, tapos pag pumunta ka sa lalaki, wala kang size. So minsan gusto kong magwala, “Bakit kayo ganyan? Meron akong pera! Ba’t wala kayong size?” So pero you can just imagine ba, very limited yung sa atin, kasi uso-uso pa talaga yung men, women, di ba? Hindi pa masyado yung mga brands na talagang bahala ka. Okay, yan. So again, expression is—uh—how you choose for other people to see you. Okay, oh, ito, nakakasingit ko ‘to dito kasi natawa ako sa infographic na ‘to, kasi yung expression—wala—hindi lang din po siya sa damit. Minsan kung paano—dahil expression siya, katawan yung pinag-uusapan natin, no? So ibig sabihin, kung ano yung katawan mo, binabase nila sa kung ano yung dapat mong ginagawa, ganun—the roles, expectations, di ba? Nakakatawa. “How to tell if a toy is for boys or girls: A guide. Do you operate the toy with your genitalia?” Ang sagot mo, “Yes,” that may not be a toy for kids, but if you don’t operate it with your genitalia, then obvious, gender does not and should not matter. Yung isang nakita ko sa idea ng expression: we usually look at expression only as how—the way that we choose to express ourselves, but also because expression talks about our body and expectations of society, how we use that body—everything from shoes to—to—to clothes to toys to colors. Yung kulay, wala siyang pakialam, tapos magugulat si pink, “Ano ba? Hindi lang ako pambabaeng kulay! Ba’t ba pinipilit niyo kong babae lang akong kulay?” Si blue, “Sino nagsabing panglalaki akong kulay?” Apparently, dati, blue is actually associated with women; pink is for boys. Along the way, something changed. So doon ninyo makikita mamaya, major point ko: how we construct—how gender is actually just a social construct. Okay, ay, ito yung gusto natin: orientation or attraction. Nasaan ulit yung attraction kanina? Kay genderbread person, nasa puso. Okay, so ito yung gusto natin. Okay, so orientation sometimes also does not have anything to do at all with your expressions and with your identity. Sometimes nag-a-align, sinasabing nag-a-align yung apat: you’re born with a penis, you dress with clothes associated with—like—with masculine clothes, you identify as a man, you nagkakagusto ka sa babae. Minsan, okay, yun, align yung apat. Minsan, pwede rin namang hindi. Siya lang pang cisgender, kasi pwedeng lesbian ka. Okay, um, or—ede—pwede kasing ano rin siya, hindi siya mag-align in the sense na nag—you were born with a vagina, you identify as, let’s say, lesbian, you dress in a feminine way, then your orientation or attraction may be for women, or sometimes yung women na ‘to, pwedeng ang porma niya ay babae din, or in my case, medyo parang butch. Okay, so marami pong terminology, hindi ko na siya iisa-isahin kasi baka paglabas ninyo, parang, “Anong nangyari?” Ah, kasi gender class typically is really one semester, but I’m just introducing these things to you. Okay, um, so may mga times na hindi siya nag-a-align. Kaya minsan nagugulat tayo, “Teka, transgender male siya, tapos may nagustuhan siyang lalaki rin—I mean, cisgender na lalaki, transgender male, ha? Tapos ang gusto niya, cisgender male?” Sabagay, utak ba, parang, ha? Or minsan ganito, um, bakla siya—o ang identity niya bakla—ah, ang porma niya bakla, pero may gusto siya sa babae. Kasi yung apat na iyan are not mutually exclusive. Ang ilan sa mga ito ay asexual, aromantic. Patalaga yung crush mo, walang—ma’am, ano ba naman ‘to? Yung crush ko na ‘to, hindi talaga ako pinapansin. Tingin ko kahit maghubad ako sa harapan niya, hindi niya ako papansinin. Malamang asexual siya. Then you have demisexual. Um, demisexual people are attracted only to someone after they develop a strong bond. Okay, so ito, hindi na tayo tumitingin dito sa identity at expression. Naintindihan ninyo? Wala na siyang identity and expression kung kanino ka na may gusto. Of course, heterosexual are people who experience attraction to the opposite sex. So kung lalaki ka, babae ang gusto mo; kung babae ka, lalaki ang gusto mo. Homosexual are people who experience the same attraction towards the same gender: so lesbian, gay, yan. Okay, and then bisexual. Bisexual—alam mo yung reputation ng bisexual? Kailangan nating ipaglaban. Okay, kasi yung mga bisexual people, ang minsan ang akala sa kanila, cheater sila. Dahil alam mo, kung magkagusto yan ng babae at lalaki, at hindi yan pinagsabay, hindi yan cheater. Okay, kasi lahat ng tao cheater, basta pinagsabay mo ang dalawang tao. Okay, but if this person was attracted to a man, and then after a few months nag-break sila, became attracted to a woman, then there’s a possibility na bisexual siya. Pansexual are people who are attracted to all genders. I am gender fluid, pwede akong magkagusto sa lalaki, pwede akong magkagusto sa babae, pwede akong magkagusto sa lesbian, pwede akong magkagusto sa ibang non-gender conforming people. Polysexual—polysexual is basically—multiple genders. Okay, um, kung sumasakit yung ulo ninyo, huwag niyo ng problemahin, kasi ang main point lang ng gusto kong sabihin sa inyo ay when we talk about attraction or sexual orientation, okay, you do fall in love with the person, not really with how they identify themselves in terms of their gender. I would close with this quote: “Totoo ‘to. Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. You want to be tough? Grow a vagina; those things can take a—” A ano—hhl ko ‘to kasi—grow some balls when you want someone to be brave? Why are you associating it with BS? Pero joke lang. Ito talaga yung—l—yung medyo nakaka-ano naman ako—this quote comes from Harvey Milk, who is—uh—who was elected of Castro, an LGBT place in California. Sabi niya, “All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve—deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.” So I—I’m closing with that. I hope you learned [Musika] things [Musika].