As Sky News reports, Russian officials have proposed a new law that would bar transgender people from receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Human Rights Watch reports that the proposed bill would also prohibit people from changing their name and gender on official documents.

While adults will be banned from gender-affirming surgery, children born with variations in sex characteristics, known as intersex children, will be subjected to “medically optional, non-consensual surgery to ‘normalize’ their healthy bodies”, it said. in the organization.

Human Rights Watch emphasizes the “hypocrisy” of the proposals, which, in its opinion, are “not only discriminatory, but also violate the rights to physical integrity and privacy.”

Russian politician Peter Tolstoy said that the bill is “an obstacle to the penetration of Western anti-family ideology” and “will preserve Russia for posterity.”