{"id":271099,"date":"2023-07-15T05:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271099"},"modified":"2023-07-16T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T12:09:41","slug":"russian-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-gender-reassignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271099","title":{"rendered":"Russian Lawmakers Approve Ban on Gender Reassignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Moscow Times \u2013 July 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Lawmakers from the Russian parliament’s lower-house State Duma on Friday approved<\/a> a ban on legal and surgical sex changes.<\/p>\n

The bill was passed in its third and final reading, banning “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person” and “the state registration of a change of gender without an operation.”<\/p>\n

According to the legislation, medical commissions will determine a list of allowed interventions related to the treatment of \u201ccongenital anomalies, genetic and endocrine diseases associated with the impaired formation of the genital organs in children.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This decision will protect our citizens and our children,” State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said<\/a> on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n

He described gender reassignment as \u201cthe path leading to the degeneration of the nation,\u201d adding that \u201cthis is unacceptable\u201d for Russia.<\/p>\n

Human rights activists warn<\/a> that banning gender reassignment will lead to the emergence of an underground market for surgeries and an increase in the number of suicides among transgender people.<\/p>\n

The new legislation must now pass a single reading in the upper-house Federation Council before it can be signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin, steps seen as formalities.<\/p>\n

Once passed, the bill will prohibit child adoption by those who have had a sex change, while also allowing for the annulment of marriages where one of the partners has undergone gender reassignment.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have frequently cast Western liberal values, particularly gender and sexual freedoms, as a foreign ideology that threatens Russia’s so-called “traditional and spiritual values.”<\/p>\n

Last year, Russia imposed a law banning the “propaganda” of LGBT relationships and lifestyles toward all ages, effectively outlawing public displays and media portrayals of non-heterosexual identities.<\/p>\n

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State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin described gender reassignment as \u201cthe path leading to the degeneration of the nation,\u201d adding that \u201cthis is unacceptable\u201d for Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":261633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271100,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271099\/revisions\/271100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}