There is now a restroom for LGBTQ pupils of an Ifugao high school that will be opened next week as part of a “gender-friendly” innovation being developed for Cordillera schools, an official of the Department of Education said. /PDI
Daganos said she advocated for LGBTQ classrooms in rural Cordillera where community resistance to homosexuality used to prevail.
The Ubao pilot restroom would have cubicles that could accommodate both gay boys and lesbians “to separate them from other teens who may intimidate them if they share conventional restrooms,” Daganos said. At a news briefing about Gender and Development Focal Point System in the Cordillera last year, DepEd Cordillera Director Estela Cariño said highland teachers have taken pains to explain sexual orientations and their ramifications on families and society to pupils, usually when “school bullying” is discussed in classrooms.
Community accounts dating back to the 1930s have indigenous Cordilleran stories about homosexuality, which “was not made a big deal” in some upland towns, according to an LGBTQ study presented in 2019 by the Cordillera Women’s Education, Action Research Center led by its executive director Cynthia Dacanay Jaramillo.
The study said this societal pressure explains why certain “sexual unions could be dissolved when couples were unable to bear children” and why “couples without children are looked down upon, especially for women.” She noted the proposed measure to give girls the choice of wearing pants as part of their uniform to protect them against harassment while traveling to and from school.
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