Georgia authorities are trying to ban gender reassignment surgeries. The laws would also ban “LGBT propaganda.”
Ruling Party of Georgia Georgian dream presented a package of laws About family values and protection of minors, which contains 19 projects providing for restrictions on freedom of assembly and media censorship. Sova reported it.
According to the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuaashvili, May 17, the Day of Family Cleanliness and Respect for Parents, will be declared a day off. Broadcasters and cinemas will also be prohibited from showing intimate scenes of representatives of the LGBT community.
As Papuashvili said, the law “on values” will regulate eight issues.
In particular, marriage must be between a man and a woman, and alternative forms may be considered unacceptable. On the issue of adoption, adoption would be prohibited for people who “identify as a gender other than themselves or who are not heterosexual.”
In addition, Georgian authorities seek to ban sex-change operations or other types of medical procedures. It will be prohibited to indicate a gender other than a person’s gender on their identity card or other government-issued document.
The laws would also ban “LGBT propaganda” in education, the dissemination of information about “propaganda of a person’s gender identity other than his own sex, relationships between members of the same sex, or incest.”
Broadcasters are prohibited from disseminating “LGBT propaganda” and advertising similar content.
Public meetings or demonstrations aimed at a person belonging to the other sex, the promotion of relations between representatives of the same sex or incest will also be prohibited.
We remind you that the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament signed the law earlier On the transparency of foreign influencethe so-called “foreign agents” law.
Georgian non-governmental organizations have declared that they will not enforce the law on “foreign agents.”
Source: korrespondent
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