Russian president signs legislation marking the final step outlawing gender-affirming procedures
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed new legislation Monday which marked the final step in outlawing gender-affirming procedures, a crippling blow to Russia’s already embattled LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
The invoice, which was authorized unanimously by each homes of parliament, bans any “medical interventions geared toward altering the intercourse of an individual,” in addition to altering one’s gender in official paperwork and public data. The one exception might be medical intervention to deal with congenital anomalies.
It additionally annuls marriages by which one particular person has “modified gender” and bars transgender folks from turning into foster or adoptive dad and mom.
The ban is claimed to stem from the Kremlin’s campaign to guard what it views as the nation’s “conventional values.” Lawmakers say the legislation is to safeguard Russia towards “Western anti-family ideology,” with some describing gender transitioning as “pure satanism.”
Russia’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ folks began a decade in the past when Putin first proclaimed a concentrate on “conventional household values,” supported by the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2013, the Kremlin adopted legislation that banned any public endorsement of “nontraditional sexual relations” amongst minors. In 2020, Putin pushed by means of constitutional reform that outlawed same-sex marriage, and final yr signed a regulation banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” amongst adults as properly.
