Transgender movement and Ukraine

Sponsors of the 2018 Kyiv Trans Conference.

The evil corrupt kleptocrat Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church sat with wonder, amazement, and horror as Western globalists, who control global media, psyops, and think tanks, sponsored the Ukraine International Conference “Transgender issues: challenges and perspectives in modern Ukraine and world”, in Kyiv after the murderous US-backed Maidan coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Never before, not even under the Bolsheviks, was such audacious activity seen in Eastern Europe.

Situation of trans people during the NATO war in Ukraine

See also: NATO war in Ukraine

Insight NGO, an organization funded by many sponsors of the Kyiv Trans Conference that bills itself as "a Ukrainian public organization whose main values ​​are equality, feminism, freedom, inclusiveness, diversity for all social groups", has not spoken out against the Kyiv regime's discriminatory language laws nor condemned the regime's war against its own people in the Donbas. In April 2022 Insight reported that trans people who decided to move abroad faced the fact that men ages 18 to 60 were forbidden to leave the country under martial law, with few exceptions. Insight criticized the law as contributing to the consolidation of traditional gender roles. Insight claimed "trans women who have not yet changed their gender marker are considered men." The diagnosis of F64.0 “Transsexualism” is a formal criterion of unfitness according to the order of the Ukraine Ministry of Health, but only in peacetime and not in wartime. In some cases, trans persons were able to obtain deregistration based on this diagnosis and then cross the border. However, the decision is made in each case by the medical commission at the military enlistment office, which can take into account individual circumstances regarding the state of health, so the presence of a trans diagnosis is not decisive by itself.

If a person needed to see a doctor – in particular, to obtain a diagnosis or consult with an endocrinologist, the situation only got worse. While the problem of a lack of qualified professionals existed before the big war too, it often became physically impossible to visit a specialist.

In Ukraine, hormonal drugs can often be purchased freely on the black market. In other words, the presence or absence of a diagnosis or recommendation by an endocrinologist is not critical to get them. However, EU countries usually strictly require a prescription. Trans people who arrived in other countries faced the problem of access to hormonal drugs. Legalizing a diagnosis that was set in Ukraine, and especially obtaining one from scratch, takes time.

Insight reports there are known cases of trans people joining the ranks of the territorial defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are no regulations in Ukraine that take into account the particular needs of trans people in military service, so they may have problems from access to hormonal treatment to the use of shared gendered spaces. Insight adds many trans people manifest patriotic attitudes in various ways. Some by volunteering or supporting volunteers, some by activity in social networks and other platforms of the information front. Finally, trans people regularly involved in activism or working in LGBT+ organizations mostly continue such activities, which from the beginning of the special military operation are focused on the LGBT+ community support and other volunteer aid.

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is an American mercenary and the official English-speaking spokesperson of the Territorial Defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Cirillo is reputed to have been instrumental in the arrest and murder of American journalist Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine by the Zelensky regime.