Russian lawmakers pass bill outlawing gender reassignment
Bill decried by Russia’s transgender community will now head to the upper chamber before being signed by Putin.
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 dissolution of the Soviet Union and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Russia is a far-right anti-lgbt country?
Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time
But Russia hacked the 2016 election to put mango mussolini in office, so american homophobia is also their fault. /j
Why I want the far right shitheads in Ukraine and Russia to wipe each other out
Wagner vs Aztov was literally nazi on nazi.
Imagine having a dog in that Shipshow of a war.
Wagner getting wiped out would be cool and good, but acting like their existence makes the outcome of the war indifferent or mutual destruction preferable is ridiculous. If Russia is defeated by NATO, do you know who is next? Even neoliberals admit that China is the greater foe. If China is defeated, what happens to Cuba?
Nobody tell him about Palestine's, Libya's, Iraq's, Syria's, Afghanistan's, and Cambodia's trans laws
Honestly in a world where I didn't have other factors to consider i'd just kind of hate most of everyone for being shitheads about this stuff for most of human history. I crave vengeance more than i really even want to live at this point
Just the far right ones, this whole thing is bleak.
It would seem the Duma has escaped the denazification efforts
Lol there never was any
Mfkers going on about how they have to defend against the "progressive west", happily ignorant that all these brainworms are imported from the west
Fking Putin was ranting about "cancel culture" at the start of this damn thing
happily ignorant that all these brainworms are imported from the west
yeah i guess italy is west of byzantium
Speaking of imported, haven't Focus on The Family been super involved in the area? I've heard scuttlebutt suggesting they have some presence, but I can't recall where.
UK to switch sides in Ukraine conflict, says Diplomat Baroness Noncina Terfington-Smythe
He pointed to what he described as a growing trend of gender reassignment in the United States, and claimed this was leading to the “degeneration” of the country.
"Are
's policies so out of touch as to cause the empire to crumble? No, it's the trans people that are wrong"P.S. pretend I put Putin's head on the out of touch Skinner meme
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P.P.S. further pretend I put it there with this:
Through out the war Putin basically says that NATO wants to turn your kids into gay, enby, nazi's, or something incomprehensible like that
Meanwhile the leader of NATO America is outlawing abortion and a group of powerful people in America are conspiring to create hate campaigns against trans people
A race to the bottom is it?
The only exception will be medical intervention to treat congenital anomalies.
"Treating" the genitals of intersex babies without any medical need to do so is ofc ok in their book, even though that practice has a proven track record of causing massive psychological distress later in life, but informed adults wanting vaginoplasty, a procedure with a 99% satisfaction rate (higher than any other surgery in the world) is the end of Russian civilization.
stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin
Lenin should have killed every orthodox priest that interfered in the political affairs of the country
Real 'Era of blackest reaction' hours
Why can't we have a major world power that is both unashamedly pro-LGBT and anti-imperialist?
Russia is a good buffer for NATO enmity while actually good countries continue to progress
Clearly Stalin didnt kill enough people
Nazis fighting Nazis. Who would have thought
Post-Soviet countries remain lame af. And yes I know the USSR wasn't a bastion of gay rights, but progress seemed more plausible in a socialist experiment than this sort of right-neoliberal shit-pit that Russia and the other Soviets became.
EDIT: If you disagree with somebody's take, the comradely thing to do is just express your disagreement straightforwardly and lay out whatever relevant information or arguments you think you need to to set things straight. What is not comradely is immediately othering the person by assuming they're just some asshole that just showed up from reddit or some other lemmy instance and started bogging down the discourse, when they've been here for three fucking years.
The German example suggests that given similar cultural and historical backgrounds, a socialist system should be expected to lead to a moderately faster advance of LGBT rights compared to a capitalist one.
Gender rights were better than even the West has today.
It’s not crazy to assume if they were still around, LGBT rights would be more advanced than the West
Russia needs to stop posting cringe
Some of these replies are odd. I really don't think Lenin or Stalin would be trans allies.
Wtf are you talking about? Literally no one is saying that. People are just sad that the USSR dissolved, because that would given Russia a better chance at future social progress in the 21st century.
I mean Lenin might if he were alive today. His government decriminalized homosexuality (until Stalin recriminalized it)
Stalin re-criminalized homosexuality, but Lenin abolished the old laws against it. I'd say both of them would at the very least acknowledge that the modern state of things is indeed a progression away from the atomic family unit that capitalism created. The only hangups they might have would be on individualism, but that doesn't really apply to the LGBTQ community specifically and in fact that community has some of the strongest and most active solidarity of anything right now.
After seeing the current state of things, they'd have no choice but to support the movement as an integral part of any proletarian revolution. Especially when 99.999% of the gay community is proletarian. Even in my smaller southern town, about half my co-workers are gay or bi, and about half the service workers here are too.
to underscore the point, there were exactly two groups of people lighting firecrackers to throw at cops 3 years ago - Black workers and queer activists. virtually everyone else stayed at home or stuck to the "safe" protests. the queer alliance with Black Lives Matters is something that will be remembered the next time hostilities break out. like every day people recognized this alliance to the degree that if you wore bloc on the bus, random people would get up to give you there seat. the solidarity is real, strong, and flows both ways.
They were also one step removed from serf oppressing monarchies.
Progress takes time and fertile conditions.
It's almost like you need scapegoats to distract from artificial scarcity and precarity.
I don't know how you got to that conclusion. but I am baby moose posting now.
Lenin would want ever single country involved to lose in this war (NATO, EU, US, Russia, Ukraine) and that’s what you should want to. All capitalist states must commit hara-Kari for us to have any chance to develop our ideas.
You could just say seppuku...
Hey Russia how's that capitalism we forced on you goin-
Oh... Oh no...