The bill bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records.
The bill bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records.
Russia is anti-imperialist but it’s also socially reactionary, that was the point of the comment you’re replying to.
They're incidentally anti-imperialist rather than ideologically so. And frankly this kind of reactionary nonsense does them no favors, since it allows the West to pretend like they have an ideological monopoly on not treating LGBT people like shit. Which, they treat LGBT like shit, but they sure like to pretend they don't.
Agreed
It does do Putin and the Russian state favors because it makes him internally popular with Russian homophobes. Which is a political group whose support is actually useful to the Russian state. This is the root of the problem.
the man has been committed to this for so long that it doesn't make sense to try and excuse this as politically expedient. we'd make this excuse for no other politician and we shouldn't do do here.
I just get the impression he's more of a cynic
also it's been politically expedient for the entire time because Russian homophobia is not a social factor that came into being in the last year