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PROTECT RUSSIAN TRANS LIVES!
I couldn't find any posts about it here so I've decided to write one myself and I just hope that someone sees it (and understands).
Recently we had this «referendum» about new changes in our constitution. There are many reasons why they are horrible (Putin now got the right to be on his post endlessly, for example), but I want to draw your attention at one specific provision that defines marriage as «a union between a man and a woman». On July the 14th, two weeks after these changes were admitted by people (read as «government faked our votes as usual») and a week after Putin told us that there's no discrimination in Russia, seven senators submitted a draft bill to amend our Family Code.
“The bill ends the practice of marriage between persons of the same sex, including those who changed genders”
senator Yelena Mizulina said.
So they're going to legally ban same-sex marriages and adoptions, including by transgender people. MOREOVER:
our birth certificates will have «assigned gender at birth» field
legal gender change will become forbidden, since it'll be impossible to change your birth certificate (and probably an ID card too)
trans people will be forced to change their replaced birth certificates (and ID cards) back to their birth gender if they've changed them before
“The bill must be adopted due to changes in public life, including the public demand to preserve traditional family values and strengthen and protect family institutions”
Great. You're trying to protect families by ruining other families and people's lives. You say that you care about children — but, in fact, you hurt many kids by taking them away from loving parents. And still, you're pretending that everything is going well while your people are suffering.
More sources:
an analysis by lawyers -
a thread by @VioletOlya (twitter) -
spread information. tweet about this with the #ProtectRussianTransLives hashtag.
a thread by @liveshowsdnp (twitter) -
Ways to help:
you can also sign this petition. although change.org doesn't really work here, but still, it's the publicity that might help.
if you can, please donate to russian LGBT fund
you can also help by signing a complaint to the State Duma but the whole site is in russian so I'll probably post an instruction later. but here's the link → https://priemnaya.duma.gov.ru/ru/message/ and an example that you can use made by @VioletOlya on twitter →
replace <ВАШЕ ИМЯ ЗДЕСЬ> with your name.
i used a lot of information by @tstar_eva (twitter). there's a sample of the letter she made that you can send to someone with large audience if you have their contacts -
DO NOT IGNORE THIS, PLEASE. let's help each other!
And remember:
Russian people are not their government.
i'm like a stranger in my own family
but i don't fear them and i don't lie to myself.
my heart is chipped and my eyes are deadly sad.
i will never go back.
— IC3PEAK's «Марш»