Vladimir Putin described Thursday, December 23 as an attitude “obscurantist»The fact that people change their gender, reaffirming its conservative approach, considered discriminatory by its detractors.
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“I have a traditional approach: a woman is a woman, a man is a man. I hope that our society has an internal moral protection, dictated by our traditional religious confessions (…) against this obscurantism», He affirmed.
Asked about the “cancel culture“And the accusations of”transphobiaTargeting Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, he argued that if a man could declare himself as a woman and compete in sports, “women’s sport was going to disappear completely“. “We must not fight against this with decrees, yelling or throwing accusations, but by upholding our traditional values.“, Said the head of the Kremlin, during his annual press conference.
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Russia adopted in 2013 a law against the “propagandaHomosexual, which officially aims to protect minors but has already been used on several occasions against activists and LGBT + groups. The latter assert that the text allows the power to conduct a homophobic and discriminatory policy towards sexual minorities in general in the name of the defense of “traditional values»Promoted by Vladimir Poutine in the face of a West presented as decadent. In Russia, pride marches are prohibited on the basis of this law. In 2020, the Constitution was amended to state that marriage is the union between “a man and a woman“.