Transgender Women in the Philippines

The word for gay in the philippines is actually bakla, or in another language here, its baot am. But the original definition of the word is actually coward. And this was something that was propagated by spain in that era because the babalin were the first people that they executed. There were accounts of them being chopped up and fed to crocodiles. So that is one a historical aspect to wit how transgender women were actually leaders in armed resistance againstcolonialism.