The Ministry of Justice is preparing amendments that will deprive Russian citizens of changing gender “only on paper,” said the head of the department, Konstantin Chuichenko, in an interview with TASS.
The minister recalled that one of the grounds for making changes to the passport and other documents is a certificate of gender reassignment issued by a medical organization, however, “it does not provide for the obligation to perform surgical interventions in order to obtain a certificate of gender reassignment”.
According to the minister, according to the statistics of registry offices, from 2018 to 2022, more than 2.7 thousand cases of gender reassignment were registered according to documents, after which about 190 marriages were concluded. “We see the following: a person who has changed the sex in the passport, but remains physiologically the same, can marry, adopt children. Questions also arise, at what age can such a person who has changed sex on paper retire? Or, if he breaks the law, to which correctional institution should he be sent? And so on,” Chuichenko stressed.
In addition, he added that this is not just about “legal conflicts related to the issue of gender reassignment”, but first of all about “inconsistency with current conceptual documents and constitutional priorities,” the head of the Ministry of Justice said. According to the minister, the department will begin work on changes to the law on acts of civil status “in the near future.”
Source: Rosbalt
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