Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III receives a gift rose from Bataan 1st District Representative Geraldine Roman, the country’s first transgender woman elected to Congress, before the start of the plenary session onTuesday, March 07, 2017. Roman visited the Senate to lobby for the passage of SBN 935, or the “Anti-Discrimination Act,” which seeks to protect the rights of persons with different sexual orientation and gender identity or expression (SOGIE). (PRIB Photo by Albert Calvelo)
