INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a controversial law that bans legal and surgical sex changes, a move that deprives transgender
person" and "the state registration of a change of gender without an operation" illegal, was swiftly passed by both houses of the Russian
a further increase in already high rates of suicide and suicide attempts among transgender people, as well as encourage an underground
effectively outlawing public displays and media portrayals of non-heterosexual identities.
