Russia has outlawed sex change. The Russian President, Vladimir Putinsigned on Monday the law that prohibits operations related to the transition transgender and denies the adoption or even custody to all those who have changed the gender marker in official documents. The transsexual groups fear that the repression will increase and they will only have a way out go into exile.
On July 14 the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, approved in its third and final reading this law that prohibits gender transition. The text was approved by unanimity and last Friday it received the approval of the upper house. The country has witnessed a multiplication of measures conservative since the offensive in Ukraine.
The law includes the ban on transitional surgery and restricts the hormonal. The bill was amended to prohibit adopting children to people who have changed their gender marker in official documents. They further decided to stipulate that the marriages where a member has changed their gender markers would be annulled. Russian Deputy Health Minister Oleg Salagai has said the government will cancel its statutes regulating gender transition, TASS reports. I also know ban hormone therapy.
He Center-T is one of the main collective of trans people in Russia. Throughout the country, the trans collective has reacted, explains to EL MUNDO Yan Dvorkin, director of this entity, “with a great level of anxiety and panic“. Personally, Yan experiences it “as a very scary and difficult”. Russia has been living since 2013 a drift ultraconservative. First was the outlawing of LGBT propaganda. Then a 2020 constitutional reform introduced into Russia the concept that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. exclusively. Vladimir Putin promised that as long as he is president, there will be no gay marriage in Russia.
The new law also prohibits changing gender on official documentswhich was allowed since 1997although the interested was not required to undergo an operation in order to make this change.
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