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Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License
mrspoonsi writes Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licenses. Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving. The government says it is tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents. "Pathological" gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list. Russian psychiatrists and human rights lawyers have condemned the move. The announcement follows international complaints about Russian harassment of gay-rights activists.
Yep. Just as I thought.
More hysterical/desperate propaganda, which judging by the response, far too many of you are allowing past your 'smartypants' filters.
You have to stretch reality completely out of shape in order to perceive this law as having *anything* to do with gays, let alone as being repressive toward them as a social group. I wonder how far the TV talking heads in the West will pursue this canard?
The authors of this law were, it seems to me, (if I can depend on the translation being close to accurate), fairly rigorous in their definitions so as to make it clear that only conditions which actually affect one's ability to drive safely are listed. They even put qualifiers in brackets after point #1, which is probably the closest item which the propagandists can strive to thread their tenuous connection to.
Any interpretation beyond this being anything but a vanilla bit of road safety legislation is for Hysterics and True Believers.
But just you watch. This is one of those "repeated often enough" lies. A year from now, it can be pretty much guaranteed that most of the people you talk to who don't pay attention to things will actually believe that Putin is personally trying to keep gays off the road.