The Russian parliament on Wednesday (25) expressed its initial support for legislation that would ban citizens of countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children, a move it said was essential to defend “traditional values”.
Last year, Russia imposed a ban on gender reassignment as part of a widening crackdown on LGBT rights.
The adoption legislation, which had already been approved conceptually by the government, won the support of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday in the first of three votes.
The law’s authors present it as a measure aimed at protecting adopted Russian children from what they describe as potentially dangerous conditions in countries belonging to the NATO military alliance, which support Ukraine in its war against Russia.
“This decision is aimed at protecting childhood and traditional values,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the Duma speaker and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said after the vote.
“It is necessary to protect our children from the dangers they may face when they are adopted or taken in by citizens of foreign countries where sex reassignment is permitted.”
This content was originally published in Russia should ban adoption by citizens of countries where gender transition is legal on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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