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Image by Alexander Grey on Unsplash. Used under an Unsplash license. Officials in Russia now often discuss the lives of transgender people: for example, according to Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the Russian Parliament, “a person gets up in the morning and decides for himself that he is no longer a man, but a woman; not a woman, but a man,” and on the Russia 1 TV channel they report: “A stamen will never become a pistil, and a pistil will never become a stamen.” In 2021 the Ministry of Health was preparing to adopt a law with advanced approaches to helping trans people, but, over the past yea…
