Graduating high school or college students in Quezon City who were denied their moment to march in gender-affirming attire have been offered to join a separate graduation ceremony to be held by the city government in June.
“We encourage higher education institutions to use alternative graduation ceremonies such as doing it online or moving it to an alternative date in the future when the threat of COVID-19 been addressed,” Commission on Higher Education chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said yesterday.MANILA, Philippines —
Specifically, DepEd Order 32, s. 2017 “seeks to enable the DepEd to undertake gender-mainstreaming in education to address both enduring and emerging gender and sexuality-related issues in basic education." " Quezon City, you have the right to express your truth, no matter your SOGIE," Belmonte said in Filipino.
DepEd NCR put out the memorandum as a response to reports that four transwomen senior high school students were barred from joining their graduation due to their long hair, which went against their schools' dress code. "We remind educators and education institutions that gender issues have an impact on the realisation of the right to education. Critical in understanding this dynamic is the intersectionality of issues, i.e. on how sex and gender issues are tightly connected with other social factors, such as age, class, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, and other status," the human rights body said.Disclosure: Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte is a shareholder of Philstar Global Corp.
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