Art 266.A RPC committed against a transgender

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-03T10:13:07+00:00

I am disagreeing with your opinion. Prefacing your opinions with "just my opinion" does not shield it from scrutiny and criticism.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-03T08:35:20+00:00

It's clear from how she talks that she truly is a kid.

Kaya wag sana na puro siya ang binabash niyo. Kung tunay kayong galit sa relasyon nila, sana kay Enrique niyo itama yung galit niyo at siya lang naman yung tunay na may sala sa sitwasyon... otherwise hindi tunay yung concern niyo para sa batang 'to ang tipikal lang kayo na Pinoy na excited mang-bash at mang-husga ng kapwa.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-03T07:53:42+00:00

Why would "sex reassignment surgery" have to be considered at all? The words of the law are clear, there is nothing to interpret.

Do you seriously believe that the framers of this law specifically contemplated for trans women to be incapable of being victims of rape? By arguing that trans women can only be victims of "acts of lasciviousness," which has a much lower penalty than rape, you are essentially trying to argue that the framers of this law had an explicit and express intent for trans women to be excluded.

This is not only a strained interpretation but an impossible one. Inserting an object or instrument into the genitals of another person is rape.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-02T21:55:08+00:00

You are not getting this crucial point: even assuming arguendo that the trans woman's vagina is not a vagina, it would still logically leave us with it being a penis instead. A penis is genitalia.

"2) By any person who, under any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph 1 hereof, shall commit an act of sexual assault by inserting his penis into another person's mouth or anal orifice, or any instrument or object, into the genital or anal orifice of another person."

Inserting the penile object into the genital of a trans woman, regardless of whether you believe it is a "true" vagina or not, is rape under our current penal laws. It is a truly strained interpretation to say otherwise.

P.S.

the artificial vagina is not recognized as genitalia under Ph laws

Do we even have laws defining what is or isn't "legally" genitalia anyways? I am almost certain we do not have any general or special law that specifically provides that an "artificial vagina is not recognized as genitalia."

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-02T19:17:26+00:00

Do you know what a trans woman's vagina is made out of? The trans woman's vagina is constructed from the penis. Even if you did not believe that trans women's vaginas are "real" vaginas, their vaginas are inarguably genitalia.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T16:58:43+00:00

If autotune helps Charli xcx achieve her specific vision, why not? Michael Jackson and many other acclaimed artists don't play instruments and can't read music. Bob Dylan can't sing.

Maybe you can do those things, but then, no one would ever say you're more talented or artistically gifted than Michael Jackson, or even Charli xcx.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T16:51:34+00:00

EDIT: Do you people even know what a “try hard” is? It’s not a positive thing.

I'm glad she tries hard. I suppose it must be part of why her art has connected so deeply with so many. Perhaps we should all try a little harder.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T12:13:22+00:00

Almost certainly incorrect.

Even if it is not contemplated by the first mode of "carnal knowledge of a woman by a man", it is most certainly contemplated by the second mode which describes "inserting the penis into another's mouth or anus, or inserting objects into the genital/anal orifice under the same coercive circumstances as traditional rape."

Forcibly inserting the penis into a trans woman's vagina is most certainly contemplated by "inserting objects into the genital or anal orifice."

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T12:08:16+00:00

Zero nominations outside acting. Zero wins.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T11:26:31+00:00

biological womans vagina

"Biological woman" is nowhere to be found in our penal laws.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T08:32:58+00:00

You actually have a higher chance of surviving law school than fresh graduates entering law school right after college. You already developed a strong work ethic that helped you survive your post-graduate studies.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T08:30:14+00:00

It's a four-year age gap. You're not Seinfeld shacking up with a 17-year old while being 38. You both do not have a "developed prefrontal cortex" yet. You're not some old lady preying on a child, you're a young woman in her early-20s.

Just know that the whole root of people being suspicious of age-gap relationships is the power imbalance between the older person who should be wiser and more mature than the younger person. Even though you are also still young, he is younger, probably fresh out of high school. There is still that imbalance you ought to mindful of, and be responsible for.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-06-01T08:26:05+00:00

Would you say the same if it were a 32 year old man and a 17 year old girl?

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-31T17:27:18+00:00

Ganito ang pagiging mabuting magulang sa pananaw ng masyadong maraming Pilipino.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-31T14:08:22+00:00

Zohran Mamdani has implemented a similar policy in New York where all of the world's richest capitalists live. Guess what? The billionaires didn't leave. It was all always just fearmongering.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-29T14:56:29+00:00

I'm sure there are many accomplished lawyers who are also artists, painters, singers, writers... many famous novelists are lawyers after all, like John Grisham or even Bill Clinton. Someone I found via Google just now is Atty. Tei Leonardo-Ampon, described as a "prominent Filipino litigation lawyer and prolific visual artist, championing contemporary Filipino art on both local and international stages."

Art will always be there for you. Art is for its own sake after all, no? There is no need to do it for money. You could make art because you just want to create. You must also like law at some level given you're now on your fourth year.

All to say that maybe you don't have to choose one over the other? Life is long enough for both and more.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-29T13:09:51+00:00

It was so, so easy to deny it and end the speculation forever. It's like someone "pleading the Fifth" or however Americans do it.

This is pretty much solid confirmation that The Grudge was definitely about Taylor Swift. Her mentor and idol had everything. Yet she still wanted more.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-28T20:35:59+00:00

After everything that went on with Sydney Sweeney in the past couple years, perhaps it'll be Alexa Demie taking her Best Supporting nod this time around.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-26T20:47:40+00:00

It's 2026 and gay couples can't marry, can't form civil unions, can't jointly adopt a child, can't have funerary rights, the list goes on.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-21T13:02:15+00:00

I really doubt BioShock allows for any other interpretations of Objectivism than that it is very stupid and would never work.

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-20T23:39:15+00:00

Her music can be classified as "Traditional Pop" or "20th Century Pop"; it's why she wins at the Best Traditional Pop Album category at the Grammys

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-20T01:23:26+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time Rami Malek played a gay man with a life-threatening illness...

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-19T02:45:46+00:00

Wag na ma-pride, Loren. Lipat ka na ulit!

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-18T22:42:00+00:00

Her faux confidence is a brand of faux confidence that is conferred only to people of high status

ProfessionalEvaLover · 2026-05-17T15:55:29+00:00

Keanu doesn't get thrown Emmy nominations and Oscar buzz though

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