Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that, with a few rare exceptions, bans sex change surgeries and gender reassignment-related hormone therapies.
Mr. Putin signed the measure on July 24, with the law officially published in Russia’s federal law register later in the day.
The act, which passed both of Russia’s houses of parliament unanimously earlier in July, bans any medical procedures aimed at changing a person’s sex, as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records.
The law not only forbids altering gender markers and names on official documents but also bars transgender individuals from adopting children….
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