Among men in Russia, gender change in documents has become more popular. The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, believes that the reason for this is evasion from military service.. It is reported by The Moscow Times.

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“Gender change on paper is a hoax, a scam. […] I mean those who ran and in order to get away from mobilization, changed their sex. We will act taking into account the new realities,” Bastrykin said..

He was outraged by the Russians, who change their sex without surgery and then leave for the West, receive a residence permit and various benefits there: “I was a boy, became a girl, in Europe I introduced myself that you were a transgender, but everything seemed to remain with you -.

The Mediazona publication, referring to the statistics of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, reported that in 2022 the number of Russians who received new passports due to gender reassignment almost doubled compared to 2021: from 554 to 936 people. The most popular such method in Moscow, Moscow region, St. Petersburg from the Leningrad region.

Based on this, the State Duma decided to quickly introduce a ban on gender reassignment without surgery - for this, they promise to introduce a corresponding bill to parliament soon, said Nina Ostanina, head of the committee on family, women and children.. The document can be considered as early as May 15.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin reported that recently 2,700 cases of gender reassignment have been recorded and Russians apply for the relevant certificate to private clinics, where such a “service” costs 30-60 thousand rubles, and then “go to the registry office, to the passport office to change.

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Recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal of the Ministry of Defense to mobilize another 400 thousand citizens. This was reported by The Washington Post.. The State Duma even started talking about general mobilization.