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In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the detention of participants in single pickets against the bills of Elena Mizulina began
In St. Petersburg, at the Gostiny Dvor, police detained 7 girls who came out with pickets against the amendments of Senator Elena Mizulina, who forbid to adopt children from the orphanage by same -sex couples and people who changed the floor. It is reported by the New Gazeta.
Picket participants stood with posters: “The ban on marriage is the undermining of the family institution”, “There are no laws that violate the rights of children and adults.”
Police officers explained the detention by the ban on mass events provided for by the increased readiness regime, which in March was introduced due to the pandemic of coronavirus.
Pickets have already begun in St. Petersburg, with a poster “Mizulina wants to change my gender” is the chairman of the LGBT+ fraction Anya Pic.twitter.com/qoqih41bme
- Egor Ilyushkin (@ugarneyshiy) July 18, 2020
Similar detentions are held in Moscow. On single pickets near the State Duma building, 17 people were detained. Only one of the detainees managed to deploy the poster, the rest of the participants stood in the picket line.
Earlier it was reported that a group of members of the Federation Council, headed by Elena Mizulina, introduced a package of bills developed "in order to strengthen the Institute of Family" to the State Duma. The proposed amendments prohibit transgender people with changing information in the Gender column in the birth certificate, which casts doubt on the possibility of changing the passport and other documents, and also makes it impossible to enter into marriage and adoption of children.
Kirill Fedorov, psychologist-psychotherapist, the detector of the “Psychology for Human Rights” movement, told The Insider that for transgender people, new changes can turn into a real tragedy.