Revisiting Social Acceptance of Homosexuality Among Filipino Youth: Some Theoretical and Methodological Implications

Transpinay: Genealogy of a term

“…This gendered boundary created conditions for the emergence just a few years later of an analogous category "transpinoy" by newly formed groups like Association of Transgender Men of the Philippines (also known as TransMan Pilipinas) and Pinoy FTM, a spinoff of FTM International (David, 2015). In this context there was a parallel sorting out of lesbian, tomboy, and transpinoy categories, both in demographic and health research, as well as in everyday life (Cruz et al, 2015;Cruz and Sasot, 2011;Evangelista, 2020;Jumaquio-Ardales et al, 2017;UNDP, 2014). Indeed, in a 2014 UNDP country report on LGBT issues in the Philippines, one focused in part on HIV as the "primary [health] challenge that confronts gay men, other MSM, and transgender women," transpinay and transpinoy appear among lists of preferred terms by respondents, not just from Metro Manila but also from the Visayas region (UNDP, 2014: 9) Second, differentiations are made from previously available categories in the Philippines, such as gay, bakla, bayot, or becky (a slang term for gay men, also spelled beki, see David and Cruz, 2018).…”