Moscow: Orthodox university refuses to issue diploma with transgender student's new name

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Moscow: Orthodox university refuses to issue diploma with transgender student’s new name

In early February, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported the story of a Russian girl, 27, who legally changed her sex and received a passport with a new name.

She then turned to the university she had graduated from with a request to issue a new diploma with her new, male name on it.

However, she had attended one of the Orthodox universities in Moscow, and the school refused to issue a new diploma. Thus, she turned to the LGBT group Exit for help, which hooked her up with a lawyer.

She says she hadn’t planned on studying at an Orthodox university, but “circumstances were such that he [sic] had no other option.”

After getting nowhere with the university, at her lawyer’s advice, she filed a complaint against the school with the Federal Service for the Supervision of Education and Science. She was then formally informed by the university that her request was denied. The girl expressed shock that the Orthodox university used her female name in its response.

The girl and her lawyer have filed a lawsuit in Moscow to force the university to issue her a new diploma under her male name.

Yesterday, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, the Chairman of the Russian Church’s Educational Committee told RIA-Novosti that he supports the decision of the university administration.

How things are in today's Russia.

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1. Shocker the Church of Putin would do this. nt