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NICOLE, 29, plans to undergo a sexual reassignment surgery by the end of the year after taking female hormones for several years. After the sex change operation, it will be harder for Nicole to apply for a change of name and gender if House Bill 4530 and Senate Bill 3113 amending Republic Act 9048, or the Clerical Error Law of 2001, are enacted into law.

Instead of encouraging victims of violence to submit themselves to the criminal justice system, state agencies do the opposite—they frustrate the victims and confirm that it is so much easier to leave the matter to fate and divine retribution.

LOCKED up in a small, dark, musty room with broken windows at the bottom of one of the ground-floor stairs of the Philippine General Hospital are hundreds of white boxes—rape kits full of specimen from victims. But the boxes lie idle, exposed to heat and to bugs and rats, their contents ignored and later disposed of without accomplishing their purpose.

The 31-kilometer, 10-lane stretch, the birthplace of people power, has since been most identified with the Filipino. It has in fact become the Filipino.

By FRANKLIN Q. DE GUZMAN
DAGUPAN CITY—No more extraction of black sand in the Lingayen Gulf coast.
Representatives of the Pangasinan provincial government reached this agreement on Wednesday with residents of four Lingayen barangays—Sabangan, Estanza, Capandanan and Malimpec—opposing the mining of black sand near the gulf.

A small community of urban poor dwellers resisted demolition by the San Juan City police Wednesday morning, resulting in a skirmish between the demolition team and squatters.