Isa sa sumusulong sa karapatan at kapakanan ng LGBT community ay ang organisasyon ng UP Babaylan, isang university based LGBT group.
Sa kaso ng diskriminasyon na naranasan nina Veejay Floresca( isang fashion designer) at Trixie Maristela (isang transgender beauty queen na nanalo sa Super Seryna ng Eat Bulaga) kamakailan sa Valkyrie Club na matatagpuan sa Bonifacio Global City sa Taguig nagalit ang LGBT community sa pangyayari.
Sigaw ni Boy Abunda, "discrimination" ang naganap.
Ang UP Babaylan, nag-react din. Below ay ang official statement ng grupo sa isyu:
Thank You, Valkyrie.
In the midst of all the outrage of the LGBT community, UP Babaylan would like to take a moment and thank Valkyrie for shutting its doors to our dear Babaylan sister, Trixie, and to other transgender women who thought that going to your club was a perfect idea of fun.
Because now, everyone knows your club sucks....
Sa kaso ng diskriminasyon na naranasan nina Veejay Floresca( isang fashion designer) at Trixie Maristela (isang transgender beauty queen na nanalo sa Super Seryna ng Eat Bulaga) kamakailan sa Valkyrie Club na matatagpuan sa Bonifacio Global City sa Taguig nagalit ang LGBT community sa pangyayari.
Sigaw ni Boy Abunda, "discrimination" ang naganap.
Ang UP Babaylan, nag-react din. Below ay ang official statement ng grupo sa isyu:
In the midst of all the outrage of the LGBT community, UP Babaylan would like to take a moment and thank Valkyrie for shutting its doors to our dear Babaylan sister, Trixie, and to other transgender women who thought that going to your club was a perfect idea of fun.
Because now, everyone knows your club sucks....
But your club is great to have brought the LGBT, especially the trans community, even closer together. Given the cases of violence the trans community has experienced lately, and with another incident like this, it should be thrilling to see how this pans out against your favour.
Thank you, because now, we have more reasons to wield our collective indignation, steer one another, and unite against discrimination. Again, we look to each other and acknowledge everyone's efforts—all big for nothing could ever be small—for our fight to endure.
Thank you, Valkyrie, for being the role model of systemic discrimination that takes form in seemingly harmless policies like a simple dress code. Your club represents the many schools, employers, and other establishments that impose gender binary, use it as license to exclude, and effectively encourage gender-based violence in a larger and graver scale. Thank you for proving to us that no one is safe from harm—that discrimination knows no class.
Thank you, Valkyrie, that while we take pride in our 23 years of activism, we are humbled to have been reminded that we are not even close to our half-way point. Thank you for making us realize, the need to organize and to be relevant, especially to the LGBT youth, is important now more than ever.
With renewed commitment, we march this Pride Month under the rainbow flag together with the rest of the LGBT community.
For the many doors that shut us out.
For the need to inflame passions. For the right to be happy.
For the freedom to love. #ThisIsWhyWeFight
Thank you, because now, we have more reasons to wield our collective indignation, steer one another, and unite against discrimination. Again, we look to each other and acknowledge everyone's efforts—all big for nothing could ever be small—for our fight to endure.
Thank you, Valkyrie, that while we take pride in our 23 years of activism, we are humbled to have been reminded that we are not even close to our half-way point. Thank you for making us realize, the need to organize and to be relevant, especially to the LGBT youth, is important now more than ever.
With renewed commitment, we march this Pride Month under the rainbow flag together with the rest of the LGBT community.
For the many doors that shut us out.
For the need to inflame passions. For the right to be happy.
For the freedom to love. #ThisIsWhyWeFight
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