A bill prohibiting medical sex reassignment surgery and its registration without surgery passed the first reading in the State Duma. During the plenary session on June 14, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, who is cited as one of the authors of this initiative, announcement its final adoption before the end of the spring session.
The document involves amendments to two federal laws – “On civil status records” and “On the basics of protecting the health of citizens of the Russian Federation”. One of these amendments prohibits medical interventions that result in sex reassignment, including “the formation of primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex”.
Such operations, according to the draft law, will be allowed only in the context of “treatment of congenital physiological abnormalities of sexual formation in children”, and permission must be given by the medical commission of the health institution. of the federal state. The list of anomalies for which medical intervention will remain possible must be approved by the Russian government.
“The worst thing is pedophilia. In the United States, where these new pseudo-values are promoted, the proportion of transgender people among adolescents is already three times higher than among adults. This is the result of the propaganda. <…> We don’t want that to happen in our country. Let the evil policy be carried out in the United States, ”Volodin addressed the participants of the meeting.
He said that in the United States, “children are pumped up with hormones from the age of eight”, and that in the last five years the number of minors receiving hormone therapy has more than doubled, and the number of sex reassignment operations performed among children aged 13-17 years exceeded 2 thousand.
Commenting on the upcoming main reading of the bill, Volodin expressed the wish “that the Ministry of Health will not propose any amendments, arguing that this is due to people’s concern”. We must take care of people, “forbid all this fornication”, estimate Chairman of the State Duma RIA Novosti.
A bill banning gender reassignment, whose developers are listed as nearly 400 deputies from all factions, was submitted to the State Duma on May 30. One of the co-authors of this initiative, Deputy Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Pyotr Tolstoy, then argued that it was aimed at preserving “for the descendants of Russia with its cultural and family values”, as well only to create a “barrier”.
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