Gender reassignment: risks for social and legal identity

Promotion of the national system of values provides for political and legal justification of non-recognition of arbitrary gender reassignment. Russian legislation establishes an uncontested ban on it, providing for a limited number of exemptions from the general rule. But even within the proposed regulatory model, a whole range of issues requiring regulatory resolution remains relevant, first of all, from the point of view of harmonization of private and public interests. On the one hand, the legislative decision limits the legal exercising of the constitutional right for health protection and taking advantage of medical care in the event of diagnosis of transsexualism as an independent mental disorder requiring medical correction, and may lead to actual exclusion from the socio-legal space of people suffering from such pathology. On the other hand, the emphasis should be made on raising the younger generation and countering promotion of gender diversity and unreasonable (beyond medical indications) gender reassignment, that can be viewed as breaching the right for privacy under the liberal agenda. In this regard, legislation in the field under study should take into account the principle of personal identity, which, from the legal point of view, means, firstly, a differentiated approach to those suffering from mental disorder and those broadcasting non-pathological manifestations of gender perception disorder, and, secondly, elaborating legislation aimed at combating destructive cultural impulses that undermine the state educational policy.