Transgender movement and Ukraine

Sponsors of the 2018 Kyiv Trans Conference.

Situation of trans people during the NATO war in Ukraine

See also: NATO war in Ukraine

Insight, 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.

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.

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.