The amendments were expected to be voted on as early as next week, Russian newspaper Kommersant said. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, started promoting a conservative agenda during his third term of office as a response to nationwide protests, which were mostly driven by liberal urban dwellers. “This will allow us to rule out the possibility of changing a person’s gender purely by changing the documents,” Konstantin Chuychenko said in an interview with the Tass news agency. Russia’s parliament is expected to crack down on gender reassignment in an apparent attempt to discourage young men from registering as women to avoid the draft.ĭespite the Kremlin’s aggressive stance against the LGBT and transgender community, Russia still has fairly liberal legislation that allows change of a gender marker following a psychiatric examination and does not require sex reassignment surgery.Ī clampdown was brought up by Russia’s influential justice minister last month, who said it would “take a step towards enshrining family values in the Russian law”.
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