Gay Man or Transwoman: A Metaethical Discourse on Gender and Sexuality

Abstract

It can be surmised that the Philippines in the 21st-century is headed towards the direction of accepting those who do not classify themselves in one of the gender binaries and those who do not believe that heteronormativity is the natural sexual orientation. The goal of this study is to inquire whether this is the case as there are some people who tend to display their natural contempt for the members of LGBTQIA+ community as in the case of Manny Pacquiao apologizing for the remarks that he had made about homosexual acts sans the willingness to reflect and change their biases for the sake of religion. I would like to show how the principles of meta-ethics, which is a branch of ethics that deals with the nature of ethical assertions, can be applied to the discourses on gender and sexuality and their implications to education by doing thematic analysis.