Russia to ban changing gender in identity documents
- April 24, 2023
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Russia’s Justice Ministry said today it will ban gender reassignment on identity cards and other official documents in an effort to protect traditional family values. “Now we are
Russia’s Justice Ministry said today it will ban gender reassignment on identity cards and other official documents in an effort to protect traditional family values.
“Now we are talking mainly about the legislative exclusion of the possibility of changing the sex in the passport and other documents,” Justice Minister Konstantin Chuichenko told the TASS news agency.
He acknowledged that gender reassignment has been legal in that country since 1997, although the person concerned is not required to undergo surgery in order to be able to make this change on their identity document.
Between 2018 and last year, more than 2,700 Russians changed their gender in their documents, which led to almost 200 marriages.
For this reason, the minister argues, a person who has changed sex on paper, although physically remains the same, can marry and adopt children.
“Thus, questions arise at what age a person who has changed sex can become a pensioner or, if he has broken the law, to which colony he will be sent,” he said.
In his opinion, this is not only about a true “legal conflict”, but also about the inconsistency of the legislation with what he called “constitutional priorities.”
The 2020 constitutional reform introduced into the Magna Carta the concept of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
“Gay marriages don’t produce children,” said Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, who once preached against “genderless and barren” liberalism.
Chuychenko believes that the measures that his ministry intends to introduce will allow “to exclude the possibility of changing sex in our country by simply changing documents.”
According to local press reports, current legislation requires a change of passport in case of a radical change in a person’s appearance, for example, after plastic surgery.
The minister, who intends to bring national legislation in line with the state’s policy of strengthening traditional values, announced that he would soon amend several laws, including the law relating to the civil status of a citizen.
In this regard, the head of the family committee of the Duma or the Chamber of Deputies, Nina Ostanina, assured that some young Russians changed their gender in their documents so that they would not be drafted into the army.
“Unfortunately, the dynamics of gender reassignment is negative. Our youth, not ready for real life, with the start of the special operation, not only fled abroad, but also ran to change their gender in order to avoid the threat of mobilization. This is the youth that we have trained, these are the values that the West has imposed on us,” he said.
Putin, a professed believer who has introduced all kinds of measures and incentives since 2000 to counter the aging of the population, assured then that as long as he is president, there will be no same-sex marriages in Russia.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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