Putin Signs Gender Reassignment Ban Into Law - The Moscow Times
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a controversial law that bans legal and surgical sex changes, a move that deprives transgender Russians of the right to access gender-affirming services.  The law, which makes "medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person" and "the state registration of a change of gender without an operation" illegal, was swiftly passed by both houses of the Russian parliament earlier this month.  The law also bans individuals who have undergone gender reassignment from adopting children and annuls marriages in which one of the partners is transgender.  It enters into force immediately upon its publishing on the government website.
  • NotAPenguin
    -18•2 years ago

    No one said it’s the biggest issue, no one said there aren’t other, bigger issues.

    • DreamerOfImprobableDreams
      7•2 years ago

      I’m saying it’s among the biggest issues! A fascist regime going after one of the most vulnerable classes of citizens, how is that anything other than a colossal issue?

      • NotAPenguin
        -14•2 years ago

        I think you might have misunderstood my comment, I wasn’t saying that this law isn’t an issue, I agree that it’s a huge issue.

    • @yata@sh.itjust.works
      -1•2 years ago

      It is not an issue at all, except to bigots. And to bigots it is the biggest issue, until they are attracted to another non-existant issue by the social media propaganda accounts which they follow.