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 ...

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.

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.

Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday unanimously approved on the second of three readings a draft law that would ban gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people.

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 last year banned gender-transition medical procedures and its Supreme Court declared the LGBTQ+ "movement" to be extremist. In 2022, ...

Surgery to change the appearance of your body is a common choice for all kinds of people. There are many reasons that people might want to alter their appearance. For transgender or gender ...

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