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Related: About this forumTransgender people in Russia banned from driving, says legal amendment
Source: The Guardian
Transgender people in Russia banned from driving, says legal amendment
Shaun Walker in Moscow
The Guardian, Friday 9 January 2015 15.03 GMT
Transgender people have been banned from driving in Russia, according to a new legal amendment published this week.
The regulations, which affect people deemed to have sexual disorders, also affect , fetishists, voyeurs, exhibitionists and transvestites, and were immediately condemned by human rights activists as discriminatory.
The amendment to the law listing medical impediments to driving was signed by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev at the end of last year, but only published this week.
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The amendments give a long list of physical and mental disabilities which are legal impediments to driving, including conditions such as serious visual impairment or paralysis.
But the most controversial section is the list of sexual preferences and conditions given, including paedophilia, sado-masochism and exhibitionism, as well as fetishism, which is described as people who gain sexual arousal from inanimate objects. Transsexuals and transvestites are also on the list, which is drawn from the World Health Organisations list of gender identity disorders and disorders of sexual preference.
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Shaun Walker in Moscow
The Guardian, Friday 9 January 2015 15.03 GMT
Transgender people have been banned from driving in Russia, according to a new legal amendment published this week.
The regulations, which affect people deemed to have sexual disorders, also affect , fetishists, voyeurs, exhibitionists and transvestites, and were immediately condemned by human rights activists as discriminatory.
The amendment to the law listing medical impediments to driving was signed by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev at the end of last year, but only published this week.
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The amendments give a long list of physical and mental disabilities which are legal impediments to driving, including conditions such as serious visual impairment or paralysis.
But the most controversial section is the list of sexual preferences and conditions given, including paedophilia, sado-masochism and exhibitionism, as well as fetishism, which is described as people who gain sexual arousal from inanimate objects. Transsexuals and transvestites are also on the list, which is drawn from the World Health Organisations list of gender identity disorders and disorders of sexual preference.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/transgender-people-russia-banned-driving-legal-amendment-dmitry-medvedev
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Transgender people in Russia banned from driving, says legal amendment (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2015
OP
Russia under Putin outdoes itself again as being even more stupid and hostile toward
RKP5637
Jan 2015
#1
Quote: ... physical and mental disabilities which are legal impediments to driving ...
Joe Magarac
Jan 2015
#2
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Russia under Putin outdoes itself again as being even more stupid and hostile toward
people!
Joe Magarac
(297 posts)2. Quote: ... physical and mental disabilities which are legal impediments to driving ...
Alcoholism not on the list I take it?
sabbat hunter
(6,840 posts)3. I wonder if alcohol
is a requirement to drive in Russia at times...
We certainly know that a lack of a brain or being insane aren't impediments against being the ruler of Russia.