INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
lawmakers pursue a ban on legal or surgical sex changes.Yulia Alyoshina, the former head of the Civic Initiative party in Siberia's Altai
banning the "propaganda" of LGBT relationships and values toward all ages, effectively prohibiting public displays of non-heterosexual
identities.According to Alyoshina, many municipal deputies chose not to publicly support her out of fears of being accused of spreading
discriminatory law because any information and mention can be considered propaganda
reassignment law, which must now pass its second and third readings in the State Duma as well as a single reading in the upper-house
