Franz Jude Abelgas | Aljay Bungay |
April 21, 2026
Political Science
For over two decades, the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression or SOGIE Equality Bill has remained pending in the Philippine Congress despite repeated reintroductions and growing advocacy. This paper provides how public speeches made by Philippine Presidents during the time period between 2000 and 2022 influenced the political development of the SOGIE Equality Bill. This paper showed how presidential speeches reflect executive stances on the bill and how this shapes or mirrors the dynamics between the executive and legislative branches. This research employs Language and Power proposed by Fairclough (1989). The study utilized a content analysis to accommodate the manifest and latent analysis in exploring how language employed by Philippine Presidents shapes gender inclusivity within the context of public speeches on the SOGIE Equality Bill. The result of the study shows that the presidential speeches affect the political fate of the SOGIE Equality bill in the Philippines.