Sass Rogando Sasot


Sass Rogando Sasot is a Filipino transgender rights activist and a blogger who is a supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Trans activism

In October 2002, Sasot along with three other trans women established the transgender rights organization, Trans and Gender Rights Advocates of the Philippines

Vlogging and column

Sasot is known for being a supporter of former president Rodrigo Duterte. She is a blogger and posts political content on her Facebook page, For the Motherland.
Sasot was also columnist for The Manila Times in 2017.

Political stances

Sasot professed to have started supporting Duterte in 2016. She has disputed characterization of Duterte as "anti-LGBT" stating how she was surprised on how local LGBT organisations in Davao City were advanced as early as 2001.
She also advocated for a less "antagonistic" approach in regards to Philippine foreign policy towards China. Sasot has condmned the United States and the United Nations for allegedly taking a more hardlined stance on Duterte's war on drugs compared to the Mexican drug war claiming that the latter is more worse.
Sasot alleged Philippine Coast Guard Jay Tarriela has received money from House Speaker Martin Romualdez and a "talent fee" from the United States for defending the Philippine sovereignty claims in the South China Sea dispute. Tarriela filed a cyber libel case against her for the accusation.
Sasot has accused of Cielo Magno for bribing legislators to uncover the name "Mary Grace Piattos" for a House of Representatives inquiry on Vice President Sara Duterte's usage of confidential funds.

Legal issues

and Sasot were subject of a criminal complaint regarding the doxing of the identity of the blogger behind the Pinoy Ako Blog in 2017. Jay Tarriela and Cielo Magno has also filed a cyber libel case against Sasot for her claims involving the two individuals.

Personal life

Sasot is a transgender woman. Still presenting as a boy at the time, Sasot studied at a Roman Catholic boy's school where she had boyfriend. Despite of this, Sasot accounts that her lover sees her as a girl. At age 17, Sasot has put on the label "transsexual girl" to describe her gender identity. Sasot recounts on how her mother had a negative reception to her coming out. She attempted suicide in December 2000. She studied in the college department of the same boy's school for her tertiary studies.
Sasot took up graduate studies at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has been living in Beijing, China since 2023.