Under President Vladimir Putin, Russian lawmakers have
increasingly denounced and cracked down on what they call
"non-traditional" lifestyles they say are being promoted by the
West.
The proposed legislation would ban state agencies from changing
a person's gender in their personal documents.
In addition to outlawing gender reassignment surgery it would
also ban "any medical interventions aimed at shaping a person's
primary and secondary sex characteristics," according to a
document posted in the Duma's database.
The only exception would be surgery "aimed at treating
congenital anomalies in children", the draft legislation said.
Parliament last year passed a new law which critics say
effectively bans representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) people in public and in the media.
(Reporting by Reuters reporters; Writing by Filipp Lebedev;
Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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