00:04Let's go to your beauty pageant, beauty queen journey.
00:09Do you really start at mga barangay?
00:10Yes.
00:11Really?
00:12Yes, I really do.
00:13I just want to say that I'm Miss Gay.
00:15Really?
00:16But you didn't come to Miss Gay?
00:18No.
00:19Because I'm overqualified.
00:20I'm post-op.
00:22But what is your take on beauty pageants like Miss Universe, right?
00:27Pwede na mga transgender women.
00:30What is your take as a beauty queen?
00:32I actually agree with the decision of the Miss Universe organization to take and accept trans women into the pageantry.
00:39Because if we want to celebrate femininity and womanhood, we should not discredit as well the experiences and the transition
00:45that our trans women community went through.
00:47Nung sumasali ka sa mga barangay, bakit?
00:50Was it for the money?
00:51Did you want to earn?
00:52Was it for the exposure?
00:54Or pangarap mo talaga?
00:55It was always for the money.
00:57Always?
00:58Always for the money.
00:59Kasi sayang din, di ba?
01:00Nakakatulong sa pamilya.
01:01So how much would you win?
01:03I mean, nananalo ka ba madalaga?
01:04Nananalo po.
01:05So may mga barangay.
01:06May 5K, 10K.
01:08The biggest I won when I was a child was 20,000.
01:10O, malaking bagay yun.
01:11Malaking bagay po sa amin.
01:13Lalo na kung ang kinikita lang ng magulang mo ay 150 to 200 a day.
01:17Pero yung mga gowns, yung mga makeup, may kamahalan yan?
01:20Opo.
01:21Minsan po sa ukay-ukay, humihirap po sa mga kakilala.
01:24O minsan, sumusungkit na lang po ako sa kapitbahay.
01:27No, but that's really, talaga, hindi ka naman na-demanda at na-barangay.
01:30Hindi naman po.
01:30Kaibigan ko po ang barangay.
01:32Hahaha.
01:32Sinisiguro mo yun.
01:33Opo.
01:33Sa kalala naman po ako sa Sally.
01:35Pero nag-uusap pa rin kayo ng barangay.
01:37Yes po.
01:37At ng kapitbahay.
01:38Yes.
01:38Kasama po ang Lupon.
01:40Hahaha.
01:41Doon nag-uumpis ang mga problema ba?
01:43Ang mga pag-aayos.
01:44Hindi, doon nag-aayos ang mga problema sa barangay.
01:46No, but I remember Ms. World, Philippines, in the way you say, 2021, interesting journey.
01:53That's true.
01:53You were very controversial because of that thing, that drug issue.
01:58Yes.
01:59You were being accused of spreading, you know, the story about, what happened?
02:05So, there was a rumor that was going around the candidates at that time.
02:09Ano yung umiikot na malita?
02:10Um, some of the girls were using illegal substance.
02:14That was the rumor.
02:15And then, ang kumalat na rumor was that I was the one who initiated that chisme is inside.
02:21Okay.
02:21Yes.
02:22So, I came clean.
02:23I came clean.
02:24So, I asked the organization to meddle.
02:26I called all the girls involved.
02:28And then, I explained my side.
02:30And somebody admitted that it wasn't me.
02:32So, I had my name cleared.
02:34But it wasn't enough for me, Tito Boy.
02:35Kaya, I had a press call.
02:37Kasi I felt like I really need to clear my name.
02:39So, I had a press call with the media.
02:41They posted about it.
02:42But the framing was, I was being bullied.
02:45But the reality is, the reality is, I was just standing up for myself.
02:49Hindi.
02:49At saka, gusto mong iklaro, and then you were asking for a public apology.
02:53Kung hindi ako nagkakamali, did you get it?
02:56I didn't get it.
02:57But somehow, I got the apology because I know that those girls went through the same thing I went through,
03:04if I may say that.
03:05Kasi, the people got mad at them, they got bashed, na I didn't want also to happen to them.
03:10So, yun yung lente na ginamit mo, even if you didn't get a public apology.
03:14Kasi, parang you hired a lawyer, may pinasulatan ka, tama ba?
03:17Yes.
03:18So, we had a demand letter we sent out to the organization and the girls who were involved.
03:22And we said there, explicitly, na I need an apology.
03:25If I don't get an apology, I will be speaking about this matter publicly.
03:29Paano nagtapos ang lahat?
03:30Okay naman.
03:31I was called by the organization and they told me na, they were sorry, they didn't take it seriously.
03:37And then the girls involved po noon, parang nag-reach out na rin naman sa akin and said, sorry.
03:42So, okay na kayo?
03:43Yes, yes.
03:44They had their own families na, so they had their own lives.
03:46But controversy is always, not manhounding, but lapiting ka talaga.
03:50You gravitate towards controversy.
03:53Naalala ko, Miss Earth Philippines, you were criticized because you spoke on corruption.
03:58Yes.
03:59And Typhoon.
03:59Typhoon Tino and the flooding that happened in Cebu.
04:03Oo.
04:04Nasasanay ka na?
04:05Nasanay.
04:05I have to be used to it, Tito.
04:08I have to get used to it.
04:09Kasi working in public service, I know that I'm putting myself in a vulnerable position,
04:15so I have to be ready for that.
04:17And I know that putting myself on a platform that faces a lot of people,
04:21you're opening up yourself not just to positive feedbacks, but also to criticism.
04:25Bye.
04:52Do you like my extraordinции?
04:55I have to be a practical to//
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