The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill banning gender reassignment – Kommersant

State Duma accepted bill to ban sex reassignment surgery in first reading. The document introduces a ban on medical workers to perform sex reassignment surgery, except in cases of treatment of congenital physiological anomalies of sex formation in children. The authors of the bill are almost 400 deputies from all factions, headed by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

Medical interventions related to the treatment of congenital anomalies are allowed by decision of the medical commission of the federal state health institution, follows from the document. The list of anomalies will be approved by the government.

Source of “Kommersant” in the lower house explainedthat the attention of legislators has been drawn to the increasing incidence of young people using gender reassignment certificates to avoid being drafted into the military. The psychiatrist-sexologist called the bill “illogical” and capable of “harmful to domestic health care.”

Read more in the publication “Kommersant” “Whoever you are born, you will be useful”.

Maria Fedotova