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Samantha

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2023-05-06

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Trans Russians Fear for Their Lives After Surgery Ban Passed

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-rus … ban-passed

Trans Russians Fear for Their Lives After Surgery Ban Passed

    When the lower chamber of the Russian parliament passed a new law banning gender-affirming surgery for transgender people, it confirmed Milana Romanova’s worst fear: The relative freedom that transgender people had enjoyed in Russia since 1997, during her entire life, was over.

    The discrimination we face threatens our lives.”

    One guy said: help me, they kidnapped my boyfriend and took him for conversion therapy.

    First, domestic violence was decriminalized in Russia and now nobody seems to care if transgender people will survive.”

    I still have a scar on my face, but my friend had many more scars; a few days later she walked out of the window on the 16th floor,” Melody, who now lives in the Netherlands, told The Daily Beast.