Despite ranking as the 10th most LGBTQ-friendly country in the world, the Philippines – the Filipino LBGTQ+ community believes – has still yet to become a genuinely gender-inclusive country.
Getting judged for being gay is hard. But it was even harder for Jeyd, since this judgment came from his own family. He wrote that he wanted to explore his gender fluidity, but his family shut him down.
Hi, I'd say that yes I have been discriminated by my family due to my SOGIE, I want to express and explore my gender fluidity through drag makeup or makeup in general and I never thought that they would be the ones to discriminate me first hand
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