The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a raft of new ...

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday submitted a draft bill to parliament that would ban surgery to change people's gender, in an apparent attempt to crack down on draft dodgers in the country.. Nearly ...

Last year 996 people applied to change their gender on their passports in Russia, according to the health ministry. The number of those who underwent surgery was even smaller.

Russia may ban doctors from performing surgery to change people's gender under a proposed new bill, the TASS news agency said on Tuesday, citing a copy of the legislation.

Meanwhile, official statistics from Russia found that at least 2,7000 Russian men changed their gender between 2018 and 2022 in apparent anticipation of Putin’s then-imminent war against Ukraine.

A bill banning the change of gender in passports and other documents in Russia will be introduced soon, Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko told a plenary session of the youth St. Petersburg ...

Russia’s Duma votes for law to ban gender reassignment surgery, in further crackdown on LGBTQ rights ...

Elle Solomina is 36, but she says her life truly began in 2021, when she changed her gender to female in her official Russian identification documents. Trans advocates in Russia brace for proposed ...

(CNN) — The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a ...

Russia’s Duma votes for law to ban gender reassignment surgery, in further crackdown on LGBTQ rights. Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images ...

(CNN) — The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a ...