April 28, 2025
Trending News

Putin ratifies law banning gender reassignment surgeries

  • July 25, 2023
  • 0

The president Russia, Vladimir Putinratified entry into force new legislation by virtue of the remaining gender reassignment surgery is prohibitedan action that complements the numerous bans in the

The president Russia, Vladimir Putinratified entry into force new legislation by virtue of the remaining gender reassignment surgery is prohibitedan action that complements the numerous bans in the Eurasian country against LGBTI+ community.

This measure, which not retroactivehave already been approved by Council of the Federation (Upper House) in the middle of last week and less than a week before, it was also approved The State Duma (Low chamber).

The project called “On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation”was presented at the end of May by a group of almost 400 deputies various formations.

The paper contains an article that prohibits changing a person’s genderwith the exception of surgical interventions aimed at the treatment of congenital anomalies in children, which could be resolved after approval by the medical commission.

Moreover, it prevents the citizen change the name in the registry office on the basis of a medical certificate of gender reassignment issued by a doctor. On the other hand, it prevents Adoption people who have undergone this type of surgery.

As stated in documents signed by Putin himself, the measure is aimed at protect basic moral and family values company in accordance with its constitutional principlesand also to preserve the health of Russian citizens.

In April of this year, Ministry of Justice of Russia assured that it is forbidden gender change in identity documents and other official certificates on the same basis.

“Now we are mainly talking about legislatively excluding the possibility of changing gender in the passport and other documents”This was stated to the agency by the then Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuichenko. TASS.

The sex change was legal in this country since 1997 and until the April decision, there was no need to have surgery to change the identity in official documents.

Between 2018 and 2022, more than 2700 Russians changed their gender in documentswhich led to almost 200 marriages.

The measures of repression by the Eurasian giant in relation to the LGBTI + community in recent years have been constant, with a change constitutional reform 2020 which he entered into Magna Carta the concept that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.

“Gay marriages don’t produce children”once assured the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putinwho preached against “genderless and barren” liberalism.

Last November in The State Duma passed a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” And gender reassignment in the media, the Internet, advertising, literature and cinema, and introduces fines of up to 10 million rubles ($165,200) for violations of the law.

Source: Aristegui Noticias

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *