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Russia may ban surgery to change gender under draft bill: TASS
Russia may ban doctors from performing surgery to change people's gender under a proposed new bill, the TASS news agency said on Tuesday, citing a copy of the legislation.
The bill would prohibit medical workers from "performing medical interventions designed to change the sex of a person", TASS said, but exempts surgery to treat congenital anomalies in children.
Surgery to treat congenital anomalies would only be permitted if approved by a "medical commission" at a federal public health institution, TASS said.
Under President Vladimir Putin, Russian lawmakers have increasingly denounced and cracked down on what they call "non-traditional" lifestyles they say are being promoted by the West.
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