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LOOK: Gretchen Diez visits Malacañang, meets Duterte

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Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday met transgender woman Gretchen Diez in Malacañang, a photo sent by Senator Christopher &quot;Bong&quot; Go showed. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Look: President Duterte meets with Gretchen Diez in Malacañang. (📷: Sen Bong Go) <a href="https://t.co/HgUQ8oBNsL">pic.twitter.com/HgUQ8oBNsL</a></p>— Pia Gutierrez (@pia_gutierrez) <a href="https://twitter.com/pia_gutierrez/status/1163435948115234817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Malacañang has yet to provide details of the meeting.</p><p>Diez made headlines after she was <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/13/19/trans-woman-arrested-after-prevented-from-using-womens-comfort-room-in-qc-mall" target="_blank">detained</a> by police in Quezon City when she figured in a scuffle with a mall personnel for using the female comfort room.</p><p>The incident has fueled talk over the passage of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Equality bill which the Palace said the President would likely support.</p>

<p>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday met transgender woman Gretchen Diez in Malacañang, a photo sent by Senator Christopher "Bong" Go showed.</p>

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday met transgender woman Gretchen Diez in Malacañang, a photo sent by Senator Christopher "Bong" Go showed.

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LOOK: Gretchen Diez visits Malacañang, meets Duterte

Pia Gutierrez,

ABS-CBN News

Published August 19, 2019 09:55 PM PHT

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