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STRAP Chairwoman Naomi Fontanos featured in a men’s magazine.

 

A write-up on Naomi Fontanos and the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) of which she is the current chairwoman is featured in the August issue of UNO Magazine Philippines, a men’s magazine. In the article, Fontanos discusses her growing up years, the struggles of transpinays (transgender/transsexual Filipinas) and one of the advocacy issues facing the global transgender community, the psychiatric diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (GID).  Fontanos has been serving STRAP as it chairwoman since 2009 and working  with a dedicated team of officers including Vice Chairwoman Rica Paras of Pinoy Big Brother Double Up, Seretary Charlese Saballe,  Treasurer Joy Cruz, Membership Coordinator Gia Nolasco and Internal Affairs Head Santy Layno to make STRAP an upstanding activist organization.

 

Her UNO Magazine Philippines feature can be seen here.