In the near future, the State Duma will be amended to prohibit transgender transition and the official change of the gender marker in documents without a surgical operation. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Nina Ostanina.
Another Kommersant source in the State Duma said that the amendments are planned to be adopted as soon as possible due to the recently launched draft campaign. The authors of the law are allegedly wary of the increasing cases of using certificates about changing the gender marker in order to avoid conscription. According to a Kommersant source, the Duma Council may consider amendments to ban transgender transition without surgery as early as May 15. This will be the first meeting of the department after the holidays.
At the same time, Ostanina argues that the need for amendments is due to the fact that the World Health Organization decided to exclude transgender people from the list of mental disorders. But she does not deny the influence of mobilization either: “Yes, both the Ministry of Justice and parliamentarians have suspicions due to the increase in the number of such changes and marriages. It seems that many of those who did not have time to escape to Georgia and Kazakhstan rushed to private clinics for help, and this is not a gap in the legislation, but a gap in the upbringing of a whole generation.”
For the first time, Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko spoke about this initiative. On April 24, he proposed to amend the law on acts of civil status and "On the fundamentals of protecting the health of citizens." In December 2022, Vladimir Putin signed into law a law completely banning the “propaganda” of non-traditional sexual relations and transgender transition. According to him, for the "propaganda" of LGBT people, pedophilia and gender reassignment among individuals of any age, a fine of 50,000 to 800,000 rubles can be imposed.