Anti-LGBT+ Russian lawmakers will take a big step towards erasing transgender rights when their bill comes before the country’s parliament this month.
Yelena Mizulina hopes to repeat her success from 2013 when she spearheaded Russia’s infamous anti-LGBT+ ‘propaganda law’. Now she and fellow legislator Lyudmila Narusova are advancing amendments to Russia’s Family Code.
Like Hungary’s anti-trans law this year, it will ban transgender people from legally changing their gender. Meanwhile, the Mizulina-Narusova bill may even force trans people who already have new birth certificates to hand them back.
Same-sex marriage is already illegal in Russia. However, the bill adds an unnecessary further layer of legislation forbidding same-sex couples