“Amendments will quickly be launched within the State Duma to formally ban gender reassignment with out surgical procedure,” the pinnacle of the Duma Committee on Household, Ladies, and Youngsters’s Affairs informed Russian Kommersant in a press release amid the fad.
Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko mentioned officers are shifting in the direction of “enshrining household values within the Russian legislation” to fight the development.
“This can permit us to rule out the potential of altering an individual’s gender purely by altering the paperwork,” he defined. “An individual who modifications their passport gender however bodily stays the identical can get married and undertake youngsters, (which) may lead to varied authorized issues.”