The Ministry of Higher Education and Science is conducting an audit against the Higher School of Economics (HSE) methodologist who, “being a man, openly positions himself as a woman”. About it in my telegram channel reported Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Anna Kuznetsova.
According to her, the basis of the control were messages from “outraged subscribers on social networks”. Kuznetsova noted that the university employee in question asks students to address him in female form and appears on the HSE website under a female name. “The photos are extremely eloquent, I will not publish them,” said the deputy speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament.
Kuznetsova recalled that there is an inter-factional group in the State Duma that monitors compliance with the law prohibiting LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender reassignment.
“We have already contacted the Minister of Higher Education and Science Valery Falkov, the situation is under his control, an official control has started. We consider it necessary to give a legal assessment of this fact,” said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma.
She stressed that the inter-factional group starts from the need to work on “the creation of legal conditions that will make it impossible for such situations to arise”. “It will not be like before,” sums up the deputy.
In March, a court in Tyumen invalidated a marriage in which the husband had changed sex to become a woman. The divorce petition was filed by the Tyumen city prosecutor’s office, after receiving a notification from the registry office that the former man had filed an application there to change documents. In February, the Russian Orthodox Church supported the refusal of one of the Russian Orthodox universities to issue a diploma with new data to a former student who changed sex after his training. The young man went to court and received support from Rosobrnadzor, who noted that the position of the university management did not correspond to current legislation. In November 2022, Russia passed a law prohibiting the propaganda of “non-traditional sexual relations”, pedophilia and information that could “cause the desire to change sex”. “It will protect our children, the future of the country, from the darkness spread by the United States and European states. We have our own traditions and values,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin commented on the passing of the law.
