Posted on 06/16/2023 1:26:53 PM PDT by Lancerdancer
Russia is set to create a new psychiatric institute dedicated to studying, among other things, the behavior of LGBTQ people as well as issues dealing with gender roles and identity, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko revealed during a discussion in the State Duma on Thursday. Amid a lower parliament discussion of a bill that would ban sex change operations in Russia, Murashko was asked by Deputy Anatoly Wasserman to what extent the Health Ministry was paying attention to studies on psychological and, if need be, psychiatric methods of bringing misconceptions about gender back in line with reality.
The minister responded by pointing out that there are several medical research centers in Russia that are already studying this issue. He added that President Vladimir Putin has also ordered the creation of “an additional institute on the basis of our federal center of psychiatry to study not only these, but also a number of behavioral areas, including social behavior.”
According to the Health Ministry, this new institute will be formed on the basis of the Serbsky Center for Psychiatry and Narcology. Murashko noted that LGBTQ research will further be expanded upon and included in the obligatory scientific studies in addition to what is already being done today. LGBTQ groups in Russia have decried Murashko’s statement, suggesting that such research is akin to so-called “conversion therapy,” which is a set of physical and psychological methods aimed at treating non-heterosexual orientations and gender identity. Such methods have been condemned by the World Health Organization and the United Nations, which have called them pseudoscientific and likened them to torture.
If it is an honest academic study, I support it. My hopes is that it doesnt become politicized as it has in the West.
They know mental illness when they see it.
They have a lot of them to study.
I’m gonna lean towards the side that isn’t actively trying to castrate its own kids
Indeed something the states need to admit to.
Do you really need to study crazy people to determine if they are crazy?
(sissy voice ON)
OH! How BARBARIC!!!
(sissy voice OFF)
meh.
I just support it.
I’m not sure there is much help for them. Short of firing squad.
You want pseudoscientific treatments and torture? How about "gender affirming care" where you pump children full of dangerous drugs and irreversibly lop off perfectly good body organs when they are too young to understand what's going on and nine times out of ten will live to regret it?
YEP!
Absolutely creating a living hell for all these poor innocent children just to satisfy their need for empathy politics.
“Due to VERY poor lack of judgement and intent to create a cruel and abusive environment, we sentence you to life in the loony bin, or death by ________. Your choice.”
Russia has a long history of turning “psychiatric institutes” into concentration camps for political dissidents.
Let’s hope that today’s Russia is not going to ape the USSR...again.
Two "non-men attracted to non-men" go into a lesbian bar one day, and the bartender says.... The funny thing is that we ALL can define a liberal as "something you cannot polish...."
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