“This law is an invitation to kill us all. There is only one way to survive—to leave the country,” one trans woman said after the lower chamber of the Russian parliament passed a new law banning gender-affirming surgery for transgender people.
people. Romanova told The Daily Beast that the new legislation “would only encourage more violence and more transgender people will attempt to commit suicide.”
Until recently, Russians wishing to legally change their gender had to interact with psychiatrists, municipal authorities, draft officers and sometimes judges. But there was a legal route to transition. On Monday, Russian transgender people’s closed chat on Telegram for over 1,000 Russian trans people was bubbling with updates on which psychiatrist to run to get the most-desirable F-64 certificate, a diagnose of “transsexualism.” Then, based on that certificate, one could get a passport changed.
But by 2011, Vladimir Putin’s government pivoted to repression of LGBTQ people as a political strategy, seen as distracting from failed economic reforms. His model of government was not going to make Russia more prosperous than the European Union, so the Kremlin started to define the value of Russian leadership as opposing Western decadence.became a long show trial of the anti-Putin punk band that was supportive of LGBTQ rights.
“The new law obliges every district clinic to hire a sexologist and treat teens; this law is a carte blanche for violence, and a license to kill for all sorts of thugs,” Loyk told The Daily Beast. “After I released my film, I received many letters from LGBTQ people in Russia. One guy said: help me, they kidnapped my boyfriend and took him for conversion therapy. First, domestic violence was decriminalized in Russia and now nobody seems to care if transgender people will survive.
Even before the new law, Russian transgender people have been victims of violence. A group of thugs attacked two young transgender people, Melody and her friend, when they walked home in the city of Yekaterinburg in 2016. “They beat us terribly. I still have a scar on my face, but my friend had many more scars; a few days later she walked out of the window on the 16Courtesy Melody
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