The Filipino Commission on Human Rights and the national police vowed justice for the killing earlier this month of online personality Ebeng Mayor, a transgender man.
Commission on Human Rights spokeswoman Jacqueline de Guia condemned Mayor's killing and announced the commission would conduct an independent investigation into his death. "Such an atrocious act epitomizes the reality of members of the LGBTQIA+ community, who face higher rates of hate-motivated violence, which can often take the form of sexual violence," de Guia told Philstar Global.
The Transman Equality and Awareness Movement-Philippines expressed outrage in a social media post May 21, reported Inquirer.net. "The trans masculine community is vulnerable to sexual violence in