Russian lawmakers have passed a shocking bill that would outlaw gender-affirming care and changing one’s gender in legal documents, adding clauses that would annul marriages and bar transgender people from fostering or adopting children.
for “high treason” for financially supporting Ukraine. Treason is punishable by 12 to 20 years imprisonment in the country.
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