Hi, my specialty is in Philippine Studies, and I have written on this topic a couple times here at AskHistorians. In short summary, Filipino historians have put by far the most research into this topic, and it is a largely accurate position, or a position with merit. Generally speaking, Filipinos tended to accept and reject certain aspects of Christianity, creating a syncretic belief system between it, native beliefs, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism. Precolonial Philippine polities were incredibly gender-equal and friendly to LGBT people for the time period, and this has in fact continued to varying levels into modern times. The Philippines is not a utopia for women or LGBT people (no country is) but it is a perennial top 10 country in the world in terms of gender equality (the Global Gender Gap Report synthesizes the most different types of empirical measures), and this is in an era after what is argued was a reduction in the role of women and sexual minorities in the societies over the course of the colonial era under Spain and the US.
Anyways, a past comment of mine: