"Kommersant": the authorities want to prohibit the column "Paul"

Editing to change the “floor” to the passport without surgical intervention will be made to the State Duma in the near future, Kommersant said with reference to the head of the Committee of the Parliament on Family, Women and Children, Nina Ostanina. According to the publication, the urgency of the project is related to the spring appeal.

Context. For the first time about the bill, according to which the Russians will lose the right to change the gender marker in a passport without surgery, said the head of the Ministry of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko on April 24. Then the minister said that the amendments are aimed at "strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values."

Later, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that in order to change the gender marker, it is necessary to go through an appropriate surgical operation and get a certificate of this. “With this certificate, it goes further to the registry office, to the passport office to change the surname, name, patronymic,” he added.

What Kommersant found out. The bill prohibiting the change of gender marker in the passport will be submitted to the State Duma in the spring of 2023, the deputy chairman of the lower house of parliament Vladislav Davankov told Kommersant.

The amendments decided to accept due to the fact that the Russians are changing the gender marker due to the spring call, from the words of the anonymous source of Kommersant in the State Duma.

“In connection with the special operation, many young people turned to private clinics to change the floor to avoid calling,” said the interlocutor of the publication. According to him, the Council of the Duma may consider proposals for the prohibition of sex change without surgery at the first meeting after the holidays on May 15.

What you need to know. By law, Russians can change the gender marker in the passport if they have a medical certificate confirming the transgender transition. According to Chuychenko, "the obligation of surgical interventions to receive a person’s certificate is not provided for by a person."

Photo: State Duma website

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