MOSCOW: Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites, transsexuals and people with other “disorders” from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists, including a prominent Kremlin advisor.
The legislation, which took effect this week, says its aims at lowering the country’s high death rate from road accidents.
It prohibits people diagnosed with a range of medical, personality and gender identity disorders from taking the wheel.
Though these include blindness and epilepsy, it also lists transvestites and transsexuals as well as people with sexual fetishes, voyeurs, paedophiles, pathological gamblers and kleptomaniacs
Passed by government decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the law follows …read more
Source: theSun
