Putin Signs Gender Reassignment Ban Into Law - The Moscow Times
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a controversial law that bans legal and surgical sex changes, a move that deprives transgender Russians of the right to access gender-affirming services.  The law, which makes "medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person" and "the state registration of a change of gender without an operation" illegal, was swiftly passed by both houses of the Russian parliament earlier this month.  The law also bans individuals who have undergone gender reassignment from adopting children and annuls marriages in which one of the partners is transgender.  It enters into force immediately upon its publishing on the government website.
  • @nitefox
    11•1 year ago

    Dude, LGBT isn’t just “trans people”. nobody is arguing that LGBT ppl aren’t human beings with feelings, but they are easy scapegoats (alongside immigrants etc) to distract people from real problems… unless you consider LGBT people or immigrants or whatever to be problems at all, which are not hence the “distraction”; I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin personally didn’t give a fuck about lgbt people

    Nazi germany is a very poor example for your point since Jews, LGBT etc were easy scapegoats for the terrible situations they were in after WW1. You don’t even have to go that far either, look at US, Italy etc that have gone (far-)right and the discussion is always about immigration, LGBT people and other stuff that makes no sense and is either a very small problem or not a problem at all

    tldr: governments use easy answer to redirect people’s anger towards made-up problems, so that they don’t really think how fucked they are

    • @[email protected]
      -3•1 year ago

      Scapegoating isn’t the “oh shit” emergency tactic of the right tho, it’s the first move they play.

      • DreamerOfImprobableDreams
        0•1 year ago

        Agreed completely. How is it possible people still don’t realize that with fascists, the cruelty is the point? Torturing minorities isn’t a “distraction”, it’s the goal. They will happily destroy their own economic standing for the chance to oppress The Other.